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Copyright 1904. by PETER M. SULLIVAN. 



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PARTIAL CONTENTS. 

This Book proves : That a conspiracv of (60) 
Ring Republings of New York headed by (14) Supreme 
Court Judges in persecuting their victim committed such 
crimes as Bribery, Perjury, Extortion, Grand Lar- 
ceny, Anarchy and Attempt to Murder. 

That such conspiracy is a band of secret Anarch- 
ists, and that President Roosevelt took his oath of of- 
fice from one of these Anarchists and now screens the 
whole criminal bunch from public exposure. 

That afterwards the County Attorney at his office 
in Oklahoma City, 0. T. attempted to murder the same 
victim, and the leading Ring officials of the territory 
protected their political partisan and attempted mur- 
derer from prosecution. 

That the Civic Federation ot Oklahoma City then 
filed criminal charges with President Roosevelt against 
(4) of these Oklahoma Outlaws, and the President like- 
-ris? pru:.ected them b> sending the charges back to 
themselves to be thc'r own Judges. 

Moii/es, pictures and correct names are given. 



It's a Book of Facts. 




ATTORNEY P. M. SULLIVAN, 

Victim, Author and Publisher, 

Oklahoma City, 0. T. 



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NOTE. 



The victim and writer of this book was born in a 
log house, and of Irish parents who pioneered the for- 
ests of Steuben county, New York, and there from the 
wilds of nature hewed out a home for themselves. 

When ten years of age the victim commenced his 
literary career by learning to read from '-Websters 
Spelling Book," purchased with the proceeds of a sheep- 
pelt that he had skinned from a sheep found hanging 
dead in a stump fence. 

And alternating between working upon the farm, 
studying by the light of the logs in the fire-place, and 
teaching school in winter, he progressed so that 
on June 10, 1869, he was admitted to practice law in all 
the courts of his native state. 

He is now closing his literary career by skinning Jug- 
handle Judges, Ring Politicians, posthumous Presidents 
and such like parasites, who are polluting public morals 
and destroying national life. 



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CHIS Book shows : That Ring Politics was the ini- 
tial point of all the criminality here exposed ; and 
that blind obedience to her criminal mandates disgraced 
all these Judges, Governors and the President of the 
United States, whereby, instead of transmitting to pos- 
terity a glistening pyramid of integrity, they leave be- 
hind a debauched hovel of infamy and shame. 

This New York Conspiracy of Sixty named crim- 
inals, consisted of high State and United States Judges 
and officials ; and by a criminal use of their offices, they 
robbed the victim and some of them attempted to mur- 
der him to hide their sins and shame. 

There were Fourteen Supreme Court Judges in the 
plot, and their own Court records prove them guilty of 
such crimes as Oppression, Extortion, Perjury and so 
forth up and down the line of crime. 

This is the first band of Ring Politicians, consisting 
of Judicial Robbers, Perjurers, Assassins, Secret Anar- 
chists, Crooked Governors and a Corrupt President ever 
run down and exposed in America. 

Great crimes are like other great things, they grow 
from small beginnings And in order to show how the 
perjury and crimes of these great criminals started 
and grew, we will now mention a few of such compara- 
tive small beginnings : 

NORTH Tonawanda, N. Y, is a thriving Commer- 
cial and Manufacturing place, half-way between Buf- 
falo and Niagra Falls. The victim practiced law there 
for several years, and there, seven years ago these 
crimes and this private war began. 



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In 1897, the republican party concluded to have the 
village of North Tonawanda incorporated under a City- 
Government, and the victim was deputed to prepare the 
necessary Charter, which was satisfactorily done. And 
as usual in such cases, the political plums were parcelled 
out before the new City was organinized. 

The allotment of ix)litical frnit was like this: 
Assemblyman Warner was to be returned to the 
Assembly. His law-partner, Mr. Lindsay was to 
be made Receiver of the German American Bank, 
about to fail. The Baldwin brothers were to haye 
the City Attorneyship, the victim was to be its 
Judge, and so (m down the line the selection went. 

But it so happened the Banlv did not fail and 
the Receivorshi]) was not delivered; then Mr. Lind- 
say chaperoned by his partner, Assemblyman 
Warner, made a dive for the City Attornyship, 
which they had so solemnly promised to the Bald- 
wins. But like the prodigal, Lindsay soon returned 
empty-handed. 

The pohtical plum chance was then fast grow- 
ing painfully less; something must be quickly 
d(me or all hope of gathering fruit from that crop 
would be lost and forever gone. 

So .the resourceful Assemblymen came to the 
victim and argued; that inasmuch as his partner 
had lost both his i^ro^jwK-tive Jobs, and he himself 
might be defeated for re-election, they ought to get 
S70(), for the Judgeshij); and of course the would- 
be .Iiulge demurred to that proposition. 

Then tlie Assemblyman chafing under the 
defeat of liis $700, scheme, returned t() the L(>gis- 



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lature in a "get even"' sort of mind; and having the 
passage of the New City Charter in charge, he 
changed the same so as to defeat the victim, and 
gave the City Judgeship to his partner Mr. 
Lindsay. 

And of course such treachery 'incensed the 
victim and caused an irreparable disruption be- 
tvt'een him, the Assemblyman, and the Ring part 
of the republican party. 

Shortly after this attempted bribe, the victim 
wrote and filed a chattle mortgage, and by mistake 
wrote "one cart" where he should have written 
"two carts," both carts not being worth over Five 
Dollars; and when the mistake was discovered he 
corrected the error at the request of both parties. 

At that time the Assemblyman and Ring 
Republicans were in the political Saddle, so they 
immediately formed a Conspiracy to ruin the vic- 
tim by twisting and torturingthis legitimate change 
about the dog carts into a crime of unlawful mutil- 
ation of records, which if true, would have fur- 
nished the Ring an excuse for ipiprisoning and 
disbar ing, him. 

Then the Conspiracy commenced active operations 
by Mayor Smeaton and Clerk Cramer (of the new city) 
borrowing $90, on their joint note from the State Bank, 
with which money they bribed the mortgagor (Mr. 
¥/ambach) of the dog carts, to swear to such false 
matter about the change of the mortgage as would send 
the victim to States Prison and disbar him. 

ABNER T. HOPKINS, was then district attorney 
of Niagara County, and is one of the Conspirators and 



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Perjurers here ; He knew all about this bribed testimony 
and used the same upon which to indict and try the vic- 
tim for such dog cart change. 




DISTRICT ATTORNEY HOPKINS, 
Conspirator and Perjurer. 

All these bribery facts came out upon the trial and 
the Jury acquitted the victim in less time than it takes 
the reader to peruse these facts. 

SOON after such persecution of the victim, the 
Kfew City election took place, and then he printed all 
these bribery facts on a Circular and had a Copy placed 
in every office and house in the City. And of course 
the result was, that the Mayor, Clerk, Lindsay, Warner 
and all the Conspirators and Rin^ politicians went down 
to an ignominious defeat. 



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Then the Conspirators and Ring went wild with 
rage, and commenced trying to inveigle the victim out 
of his home in the middle of the night to kill him ; but 
failing, the Mayor and City Clerk, writhing under the 
loss of their money, their offices and reputations, they 
came to the victim's house at 10 o'clock at night and 
there made an attempt to shoot and murder him, but as 
fate would have it, no blood was shed and all live to 
bear their part in this statement of facts. 

THE last criminal escapade of the Mayor and 
Clerk burned like hot iron in the marrow bones of all 
the Conspirators, so they organized a new plot by hiring 
a Thug named Hale, to do the victim up. He had re- 
cently arrived from Troy, N. Y., where he was mixed 
up with the political murder of Batt Shea. 

The Thug secretly watched until he caught the vic- 
tim alone going through the United States Post Office 
on Sunday after a paper, and there he attacked him 
from behind and did him great bodily injury before help 
came. There was no law that could punish the Thug, 
or these other attempted murders, as the Ring and Con- 
spirators controlled the Courts and run the town. 

And then, to help the would-be murderers out, the 
Ring papers published all kinds of lies about the attack, 
and twenty of the Conspirtors lead by Millionaire James 
S. Thompson, raised a sum of money and gave it with a 
gold watch to the Thug, for thus attacking a decent 
citizen and violating the criminal law : Since which 
time the Thug caused the death of a young girl, then 
murdered his wife and committed suicide, 

JUDGES AND CONSPIRACY 
SUCH persecution and criminal conduct cost the 



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Ring many respectable votes and n^uch political prestige; 
80 the leaders became alarmed, and Senator Ellsworth 
of Lockport, N. Y., (then President pro-tem of the Sen- 
ate) began active operations to regain lost ground. 

And soon the Conspiracy was increased so that it 
had Sixty members : The last acquisition, consisting of 
a United States Judge, Fourteen Supreme Court Judges, 
United States Attorneys, U. S. Commissioners and oth- 
ers in high official rank, and all Ring Republican Poli- 
ticians. 

These Judges soon plotted to have the victim 
brought before them upon false and fictitious charges ; 
and there by disregarding all law and evidence, they 
would scon run him through their Judicial Machine and 
drop him out at the tail end despoiled of his money and 
right to work at his profession ; and thus done up, he 
would be powerless to expose any more of their crimes 
and boodle plans. 

They calculated their money and power would keep 
such Judicial crimes out of the papers, and their official 
standing would be a satisfactory answer to anything the 
victim could say or do against them ; and then in a short 
time their crimes would be looked upon as the mere 
vaporings of an Attorney who had only received what 
he deserved. 

NOW to work their plot of ruin as already out- 
lined, they procured a woman of illrepute from the 
Barbara Coasts of Buffalo and induced her to falsely 
testify that she had not been paid a certain $350. by 
the victim coming out of an assault case. 



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SUPREME JUDGE KRUSE, 
Conspirator and Perjurer. 

The victim was brought into Court before the above 
named Judge and there charged by the affidavit of that 
woman with not having paid her the money, which meant 
that he had stolen it ; though she had remained quiet 
about it for nearly a year since receiving it, and until 
the Ring and its Judges wanted to ruin a man with the 
false testimony of a harlot. 

Judge Kruse was then seeking re-election, and 
Ossian Bedell, the ring's chief committeman with his 
Counsel, Ex- Judge Lewis, were in Court secretly di- 
recting the persecution ; and seoin^ the Court did not 
fall down on the preconcerted plan to rob and ruin the 
victim, also that Judge Kruse earned his re-election by 
his infamy there to be done, 

As against her affidavit the victim produced and 
read the affidavits of four unimpeachable men showing 



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in detail the fact, that this same money had been paid 
to her about a year before that time. Which affidavits 
entitled him to have the charge forever dismissed. But 
tp make such dismissal would knock out the Conspira- 
cy's greatest plot, leave the victim free, and defeat 
Judge Kruse for re-eleptjon,. 

So not being able to get the charge dismissed, the 
victim demanded his legal right of a trial by Jury on 
t«he issues raised by these affidavits. 

Now these conspiring Judges knew, that if he were 
given such jury trial, he would prove the fact the mon- 
ey had been paid ; hence to save themselves and the 
Ring from the open shame of defeat, and to secure the 
final ruination of the victim, also to promote the re-elet- 
ion of Judge Kruse, they had him make a written decis- 
ion depriving the victim of his right to a jury trial ; con- 
trary to the Statute and Common law of the State, and 
contrary to the law of every civilized country on earth ; 
which decision was also made, so that the Judges and 
Re£<erees they would appoint could make the law and 
facts against the victim and thereby rob and ruin him. 

AND, to carry out such plot. Judge Kruse sent 
the matter to be tried by a'Referee named HenryH.Sey- 
more of Buffalo, who is a jury Commissioner there, ap- 
pointed by these Judges, and a conspirator and perjurer 
here proven by the record. The Ring and Judges in 
New York have several such fellows all over the State, 
who act as Referees in carrying out their criminal work ; 
as power or pelf, or politics may demand. Therefore 
you see they are a secretly organized band of robbers, 
who use the power of their high positions to covertly 
plunder the people and solidify themselves in power. 



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The Referee went through with the farce of a trial 
taking much of the evidence against the victim in his 
absence with no one to represent him. And when the 
evidence was closed, the direct testimony of six witnes- 
ses showed that the money had been paid to the womaa 
from the Barbara Coast ; besides the evidence of all 
the witnesses on both sides of the case contradicted her 
in nearly every material particular : She also contra- 
dicted herself in many such particulars ; besides she was 
shown to be so loathsome that her description cannot be 
given here. 

Now, in order for the Referee to make a decision, 
he must first make findings of fact from the evidence to 
base his decision upon. So he made Twenty findings, 
all of which were false ; some of them were contrary to 
all the evidence on both sides of the case, the remainder 
were without any evidence for or against them, 
pure fabrications. 

And upon such findings, he decided the victim had 
stolen the money, and for Referee's costs and all he 
must pay about $1000. Yet these Judges dare not in- 
dict and prosecute him, because they knew he would 
Prove his innocence if given a jury trial ; and would also 
prove their guilt in this conspiracy. 

Therefore to completely rob him and protect them- 
selves, they must prevent him from getting a jury trial, 
and have their own Judges and Referees to make the 
facts and law of the case, and rely on screening them- 
selves by keeping it out of the papers, and away from 
the people as already stated. 

NOW, before the robbers could get the victim's 
money under the Referee's decision, they must have o.rre 
of their Judges to confirm it in Court, so they brought it 



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on for such purpose before Supreme Court Judge 
Childs. 




SUPREME COURT JUDGE CHILDS, 
Conspirator and Perjurer. 

On the argument against that confirmation of the 
Referee's report, the victim pointed out from the evi- 
dence the falsity of all these twenty findings of the Ref- 
eree, and plainly showed that he was being robbed by 
the Referee. Notwithstanding, the Judge knowingly 
and feloniously, and to carry out the general plot of 
Judicial robbery inaugerated by United States Senator 
Tom Piatt's ring, confirmed the whole of these falsehoods 
in a bunch and pronounced them all solid truths ; when 
he personally knew from the record they were all false. 



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- The Judge wrote and filed his decision on such con- 
firmation and in it, he inserted six new lies against the 
victim so as to defeat him in the Court above in case he 
appealed from the confirmation. And thus Judge Childs 
made himself the father of (26) Judicial lies proven by 
the record, and put to ashame all the liars of the world 
back to and including the Ancient Annanias. 

THE victim had to submit to being thus robbed and 
branded as a felon, or take his chance on an appeal 
from Judge Child's decision, so he appealed and thereby- 
jumped out of the frying pan into the fire, landing into 
the crucible of five Ring Judges made to order by Sen- 
ator Tom Piatt's Political Machine of New York. 

Thus these Judges out-rivalled all the Judicial in- 
famy of the world since the days of Pontius Pilate : and 
even raised the Blush of competitave jealousy on his 
cheek, he having been dead for over eighteen hundred 
years. Specific attention will be called to them later on. 

A few days after Judge Childs had committed the 
foregoing infamy, he felt as though a little more could 
be done, so he came back after the victim and hit him 
again by maliciously and unlawfully ordering him to 
give $1000 bond on appeal or to jail. 

And because he did not give the bond or go to jail 
as soon as desired, the Conspirators had Supreme Court 
Judge White come into the Arena and unlawfully order 
him sent to jail at once. So might made right : And 
Ring Robbers Ruled the Roost : but they never succeed- 
ed in landing him in jail. 

THE robbers now were very hungry for the little 
dab of money they were going to get from the victim, 
and were not willing to wait until the Appellate Divi- 
sion of the Supreme Court at Rochester had gone through 



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the pretense of hearing the case on appeal and confirm- 
ing the robbery. 

So they tried to prevent an appeal by having Ref- 
eree Seymour settle and order the case on appeal writ- 
ten and printed in such way that it made no sense and 
was only a jumble of words ; they calculated such a 
course would cause the the victim to abandon his case 
and then they would get his money right quick- 

AND to help that scheme along, they had the mat- 
ter brought up before Daniel J. Kenefick, another ready- 
made Ring Judge of the Supreme Court. And after the 
impossibility of writing or printing the case was shown 
him in full detail, he ordered the same to be re-written 
signed by Referee Seymour, and filed in (10) days, or 
else the case would be deemed abandoned. 




JUDGE LAMBERT 
Conspirator and Perjurer. 



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Immediately after that order Referee Seymour 
skipped the town and stayed away until after the (10) 
days had expired ; and by these Judicial tricks the case 
was declared abandoned. 

But before they had a chance to divide the money, 
the victim had a motion pending before Supreme Court 
Judgi Lambert to vacate and set aside that abandon- 
ment order and to settle the case in a fair manner. 

Judge Kenefick's order was as glaringly wicked as 
highway robbery, and the court room being quite full, 
Judge Lambert through shame and self protection va- 
cated it. 

But he wound up by comcnitting as much infamy and 
crime as any of these other ready-made Judges ; because 
he knew his retention or promotion in of&ce depended 
upon his skill and willingness in doing dirty Ring work. 

Rule (34) of the general rules of practice provided 
that only the material parts of the evidence and papers 
should be printed in a case on appeal. Now, Judge 
Lambert committed his first crime by violating this rule 
in ordering that all the evidence and papers should be 
printed in full unless the opposing attorney would con- 
sent to a shortened case. 

And thus the Judge loaded the victim down with 
extortionate printers fees as it would cost $500 to print 
such a case while $50 would print a proper one. By 
such infamy they expected the victim would abandon 
his appeal, and then they would get his money by a 
short cut. 

But the opposing attorney being a half fool of a 
fellow (and as criminal as foolish) the victim coaxed him 
to consent to a shortened case so a reasonably fair one 
was printed for $125. 



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CALIFORNIA BANDITTI. 

IT was then September 1900, and the victim had 
published his California Conspiracy showing how Mil- 
lionaire Murderers, Sirens and Senators with hired As- 
tassiris had made over forty attempts to murder him, 
while he was Enrolling Clerk of the state Senate there. 

In that book he mixed the crimes of these Judicial 
Junk dealers with the California Banditti, and after its 
publication the Conspiracy determined upon his swift 
ruination without waiting for these Judges to do it on his 
appeal case. Besides the Junk Dealers, they had the 
millionaire murderers to help them in their plots to se- 
cretly ruin a lone individual who never had done them 
harm, only to stand pat on his rights. 




JOHN E. POUND, U. S. Commissioner, N. Y. 
Conspirator and Perjurer. 
THEIR new ruination scheme was planned and 
worked out as follows ; At that time W. B. Simson, an 



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attorney, thief and perjurer, resided at Tonawanda, N. 
Y., and the persecutors had him get his client Goodman, 
a Jew, (against whom the victim had a judgment of 
several hundred dollars) to make a fahe complaint, 
charging the victim with a criminal violation of the Uni- 
ted States Bankrupt law. 

The victim was arrested upon such charge and 
taken before this Commissioner for a preliminary hear- 
ing. Goodman and his attorney were the only witnesses. 

The Jew had an abortive idea that he could 
send the victimjo prison and thereby in some way he 
would get rid of paying his judgement. And Simson 
was the general tool and handy man of the Ring working 
for its favors, such were their motives. 

The only incriminating evidence given by the Jew 
was against himself, by contradicting the Court records 
and thereby committing perjury : And the same was 
true of Attorney Simson, who denied the court records 
in a crimnal assault case then pending against him by 
a married woman, thus committing perjury. 

Simson was then, for more reasons than one, anxious 
to have that assault case dismissed from the record ; so 
the next day he secretly applied to Judge Kruse who 
ordered the case dismissed from the record, thereby de- 
frauding the victim out of $75, he being the opposing 
attorney with that sum due him. 

Further on we will show how Judge Kruse denied 
such order and contradicted his own court record in said 
case to prevent a judgement against himself for making 
such an unlawful order, and thereby committed wilful 
perjury. 

Now there was not a particle of evidence before 
Commissioner Pound to show that any crime had been 
committed, except the evidence of Simson and Goodman 



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which showed they each had committed perjury before 
that United States Commissioner. 

But according to the clamor of the Sanhedrim, this 
new Pontius Pilate Pound crucified the victim between 
these two perjurers and held him to answer to the next 
grand jury without naming any crime, and then turned 
the purjurers loose to roam and glean in the fields for 
other victims who dared to dispute the power or expose 
the crimes of Ring politicians. 

The victim's case soon came on before the United 
States grand jury, and the Ring's attorney Brown with 
his deputy Mr. Dempsey were there trying their level 
best to have him indicted upon the evidence of these 
perjurers, and at the same time' were screening the per- 
jurers from prosecution by witholding the evidence of 
their guilt from the grand jury. 

For the purpose of preventing these United States 
attorneys from having the victim indicted, also to make 
a record against them and the whole Ring for future 
use, he drew up a lengthy affidavit with full details 
which, among other things showed ; that these U. S. 
District Attorneys were protecting the perjured tools of 
the Ring from indictment, by refusing to present the 
evidence of their guilt to the Grand Jury and at the 
same time were using their evidence to have the victim 
indicted. 

And as soon as opportunity afforded, and in the 
presence of about one hundred and fifty persons (many 
of them being Grand Jurors) , the victim read that affi- 
davit in open Court, which exposed the whole conspira- 
cy, and the criminal use these U. S. District Attorneys 
were making of their high offices ; and he asked the 
Court to make an order requiring them to present the 



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evidence showing the guilt of these perjurers to the 
Grand Jury. 

That affidavit which directly charged these two 
United States Attorneys with partiality and crime done 
in their Official capacity, opened the eyes of the Grand 
Jurors, and startled both the Court and its Attorneys. 

Such a cyclone in the Judicial farce, completely 
bewildered the actors ; and it was some time before the 
Court gathered sufficient nerve to decide that the victim 
should be prosecuted upon the evidence of the two per- 
jurers, but that they should go free. 




JOHN R. HAZEL, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE, 

BUFFALO, N. Y. 

Conspirator and Perjurer. 

The spite and revenge promoting the farce was 
plainly seen by the Grand Jury, and it lost no time in 



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voting not to indict the victim ; and thus for the third 
time in his persecution he practically proved the liberty 
of the poor is only safe in the hands of a Jury. And 
especially is that so in New York, where Tom Piatt's 
Jug-handle Judges administer the law. 

From a criminal stand-point the last plot to ruin 
the victim was quite well planned : He was to be ar- 
rested and prosecuted upon perjured testimony, before 
John R. Hazel of Buffalo, N. Y. ; who was so recently 
raised from the ranks of a common Ward Politician, to 
the high office of a United States Judge ; by the politi- 
cal power of boss Piatt, for the purpose of robbing the 
poor and doing political work tor the Ring. 

As a matter of patriotic duty and historical fact, 
we present the picture of this Judge, and later on will 
show how he CDmmitted willful perjury by denying all 
the records of his own Court about that motion and the 
other two perjurers. 

APPELATE DIVISION INFAMY 

These Kings in crime, having thus met their Wa- 
terloo, and being completely routed on their own camp- 
ground, were very angry and deeplv humiliated. Yet 
undismayed, they lost no time in pursuing the victim in 
their plot of ruin before the Ring Judges of the Appell- 
ate Division at Rochester, N. Y. ; where by Judge-made 
facts and Jug-handle law they judicially robbed him of 
his money, honor and right to work and live by his 
profession. 

The Judges of that Court were : William H. Adams, 
of Canandaigua, Justice presiding; Peter B. McLennan, 
of Syracuse ; Pardon C. Williams, of Watertown ; Frank 
C. Laughlin and Alfred Spring, of the Buffalo District. 



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And they have jurisdiction over (22) Counties out of 

(61) of the State. 

The printed record upon which these judges were 
presumed to base their decision was before them. It 
contained (20) false findings of Referee Seymour, the 

(6) lies of Judge Childs, besides (33) criminal lies and 
crimes in the brief of the opposing attorney, Mr. Ladd, 
Making (59) printed falsehoods for these Jug-handle 
Judges to sail around in reaching tneir gulf of shame 
and debauchery. 

AND, to briefly recapitulate some of these facts, 
and their crimes we state : The record showed that all 
the witnesses on both sides of the case contradicted 
Miss Johnston (from the Barbara coast of Buffalo) on all 
the main points in their evidence, and the main point 
litigated ; besides she contradicted herself to such a 
material and flagrant extent that her evidence was self 
evidently false from the record. It was a case of 
thirteen witnesses against one, and that one (herself) 
shown to be false by her own testimony. Besides her 
physical condition was shown by her own evidence to 
such that it can not be printed. 

JUDGES CONSPIRACY. 

THE conspiracy of Judges to ruin the victim is 
now plainly seen ; it is also plainly seen how Judge 
Kruse first robbed him of his right to a Jury trial, so 
that Judge Childs could later on rob him of his money 
and honor. 

It is also plainly seen ; that by reason of the exal- 
ted positions, supposed learning and honor of these Ap- 
pelate Judges, that a crime committed by them is of ten 
thousand times greater moral turpitude, than when com- 
mitted by any of the preceding lesser conspirators. 



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And by reading the following pages it will be more 
plainly seen ; how these Appelate Judges feloniously 
confirmed all the foregoing crime and robbery and made 
themselves a party thereto ;and then committed the crime 
of Perjury, by denying their own Court records under 
oath to prevent a money judgment against themselves 
for having committed such ciime when sued therefor. 

These Appelate Judges by confirming the robbery 
order of Judge Childs, thereby swallowed the whole of 
these (59) lies in one gulp and decided they were all 
solid truths. Besides they decided the evidence of one 
self-confessed perjurer and diseased courtesan out- 
weighed the evidence of (13) reputable witnesses. 
They also decided the victim should not be given his 
natural, legal and constitulional right of having the 
question as to whether or not he had paid that (350) 
dollars tried by a Jury. 

They made such unlawful and malicious decision 
because ; they knew he pould and would prove, and a 
jury would render a verdict that he had paid the money : 
And that would defeat their scheme to ruin him accord- 
ing to the plot of Piatt's Ring robbers and political pros- ' 
titutes of New York. And they attempted to hide their 
decision from the people by refusing to write or give 
any reasons for it, as required by their sworn and legal 
duty, and the law of the State. 

Again : They dared not try to write an opinion ex- 
plaining away these (59) lies, for the minute they 
touched them, the whole robbery scheme would have 
exploded, knocked off their Jug-handle heads, busted 
Tom Piatt's Ring, and killed the goose that was laying 
their golden eggs. 

BESIDES the foregoing, they further attempted to 



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hide their crime and infamy from the people, by order- 
ing disbarment charges to be brought against the victim 
so as to make it appear that he was a bad man, and 
they were justified in thus summarily disposing of him. 

Now the only thing worthy of consideration in these 
disbarment charges was the fact, whether or no, the 
victim had paid that $350. to Miss Johnson. 

And to have that question fairly tested, he asked 
and begged District Attorney Hopkins, these Appellate 
Judges and other conspirators, to have him indicted for 
stealing the money ; and then if he could not prove be- 
fore a jury that he had paid it, he would be sent to 
States Prison, disbarred and forever knocked out and 
disgraced. 




ATTORNEY W. B. SIMPSON, OF TONAWANDA 

Thief, Conspirator, Perjurer and Anarchist. 

But they, knowing his innocence, and that he would 
be acquitted and exonerated before the world by a jury 



26 CORRUPT 

trial, which would practically condemn them, they 
prevented his indictment and held him in before these 
jugglers to be ruined upon their final decision on these 
disbarment charges. 

Reader just think of a man in this God-given country 
chased and persecuted by a band of conspirators and 
perjured Judges, until he is willing to submit to be in- 
dicted upon a false charge in order to get a jury trial 
to preserve his honor and get away from such persecu- 
tion. 

ON May 10, 1897, this same Simson was a.ttorney 
for a poor old Dutch woman, named Louisa Lohm.an, he 
had collected $1600 for her on a judgment, one half the 
. the money was hers, the other half his. 

He stole the old woman's $800 ; and about four 
years thereafter, while the victim was thus being perse- 
cuted he found out Simson had stolen that money, so he 
immediately swore out a warrant for Simson's arrest 
upon a charge of Grand Larceny. 

The Ring and its Conspirators filled and controlled 
all the offices, so the warrant could not be served until 
after Simson had raised the $800 ; and through the 
Ring's Postmaster, Wallemeir, the matter with the old 
woman was settled by paying her part of the $800. 

After the capture of the thief, the tools of the Ring 
immediately flocked to his rescue. And Attorney Reb- 
adow, of Buffalo (a Republican Committeeman) who 
knew all about Simson stealing that $800. could not be 
made to answer any questions in Court telling what he 
knew about the Grand Larceny. 

DISTRICT Attorney Penny, of Erie Co., instead 
of prosecuting, protected the thief and prostituted near- 
ly all the functions of his High Office in doing so ; con- 



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sequently Simson was turned loose as a thieving Para- 
site upon a stoic public. 

APPELATE DIVISION AGAIN. 

AS further facts that chain these Appellate Judges 
fast to the public whipping post of infamy, we show 
their criminal ommission of sworn public and official 
duty as follows : 

That soon after this last episode about Simson, the 
victim prepared verified disbarment charges against him 
based upon that $800. grand larceny crime : Against 
District Attorney Hopkins based upon his misconduct 
and crimes herein ; and against Attorney Ladd for the 
(33) lies and crimes contained in his brief heretofore 
described. 

The victim filed these charges in this Appellate 
Court and asked the Judges to proceed with disbarment 
charges thereon, the same as was being done against 
him, to the end all should be treated alike before the 
law. 

Of course the Jug-handle Judges refused to prose- 
cute these charges because ; Messrs Ladd, Simson and 
Hopkins were the special tools of the Ring and the 
helpers of these Judges in persecuting the victim. 

But to be as infamous as possible these Appellate 
Judges appointed this same conspirator and perjurer 
Hopkins to prosecute the disbarment charges against 
the vicHm, thereby misusing the power of the people's 
Court to specially insult a man after robbing and dis- 
honoring him. 

And then the Judges hunted around for several 
days to find an efficient tool to do their bidding and 
finally without the knowledge or consent of the victim, 



28 CORRUPT 

they arbitrarily appointed Joseph W. Taylor, of Roches- 
ter, to go through with the farce and make-believe of 
taking the evidence upon the charges and report the 
same to them for confirmation. 

This Referee was the longest, leanest, smoothest 
and slickest tool in the whole criminal trust and robber 
combine. He was also the mental superior of any of 
these Judges, or any other member of the new robber's 
roost. 

THEY had only two charges upon which they re- 
lied as an excuse to disbar the victim. 

First; that he had maligned Judges Kruse, Childs 
and Referee Seymour in his book, wherein he had pub- 
lished the foregoing facts about them. 

Second ; that he had stolen $350. for which they 
dare not let him be indicted and have a jury trial. 

They proved the first charge by introducing the 
book in evidence. The victim disproved it, by testify- 
ing and proving that all things contained in the book 
were absolutely true ; and no one contradicted him. 
Keither Judges Childs, Kruse nor Referee Seymour 
came into court because they knew they were guilty, 
and dare not submit to a cross examination. 

To prove the second charge they offered the printed 
case on appeal in evidence. The victim objected to 
such evidence upon the ground ; he had a natural, legal 
and constitutional right to have the witnesses against 
him brought into court where he might cross-examine 
them. 

Of course the Referee over-ruled such proper ob- 
jection and the record on appeal was recieved in evidence. 
The case was then closed and reported to the Jug-han- 
dle Judges, for final action, and disbarment. 

But by the time the matter came up before them. 



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they found out the objection to the printed case should 
have been sustained. Also that if they disbarred him 
upon such illegal evidence, he could get to the Court of 
Appeals upon such evidence. . And they must not give 
him a chance to appeal, for the Court of Appeals would 
not sustain their criminal conduct in thus robbing a 
man. 

SO the jugglers sent the case back to the Referee 
to take the evidence of Miss Johnson, for they must 
have some kind of evidence as an excuse for disbaring 
him. What a disgrace it is to the nation. A robber 
band of Ring Judges resorting to and relying upon the 
sole evidence of a perjured harlot to hide their crimes 
for Judicially robbing a man. 

Now, she had been living in open fornication ever 
since she got her whack out of the money produced by 
Judge Child's robbery of the victim, consequently they 
were afraid her recent unsavory conduct might be 
brcught out on cross-examination, but there was no oth- 
er course left, so they brought her into Court, relying 
upon the lankey Referee to keep her shame off the 
record. 

And there before the Referee, with him to help 
her, the poor unfortunate creature attempted* to hide 
her sin, but instead of hiding, she exposed it, and com- 
mitted two seperate crimes of perjury as follows : 

First, because on February 25th, 1901, before a 
Justice of the Peace she had testified that she never 
was married, and then on March 23rd, 1901, before the 
Referee she testified that her evidence before the Justice 
was false ; while the truth is, her evidence before the 
Justice was true. 

Second, because on March 23rd, 1901, before the 
Referee she testified that she was married on June 10th, 



30 CORRUPT 

1900, which was false* as stie was not married until 
March 22, 1901, the day before she came into Court. 

Such false evidence was given to hide her illicit 
conduct with Bradford since June 10th, 1900, for she 
and the persecutors knew the witnesses were in Court 
to prove such conduct, and unless the same could be 
hid, she would be exposed on the record, which would 
destroj'- her evidence for the Ring's disbarment scheme. 

Yet she is nowhere so guilty of moral terpitude as 
Hopkins and the other persecutors, who induced her to 
get married and then to give false evidence about it, 
with the vain hope of bolstering up her character on the 
record to serve as a pretext for the Court to hang its 
intended disbarment order upon. 

The victim then offered to contradict her testimony 
by testifying ill his own behalf; that her name was 
signed to her marriage record in her own hand writing 
that he made a full and complete record of her mar- 
riage from the original, which showed she was married 
on March, 22nd, 1901, and he offered such copy in evi- 
dence along with his proposed evidence. The District 
Attorney objected to- having the chief witness of the 
prosecution contradicted by showing her perjury, and 
the Referee maliciously and unlawfully sustained such 
objection. 

He then offered in evidence the original record of 
her marriage and the evidence of the minister who 
married her to show she was not married on June 10th 
1900, (as she had testified) but on March 22nd, 1901, 
for the purpose of impeaching and lessening the weight 
of her testimony ; to which the District Attorney object- 
ed, and was sustained by the Phonegraph of the Ring, 
in other words the Referee. 



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The Referee knew that such evidence was a death 
blow aimed at the very gizzard of the persecution; and 
that if her perjury was again spread upon the record, 
all the sophistry and veneered reasoning of the Jug- 
handle Judges in the state could not galvanize it into a 
presentable appearance. Hence his debauchery in 
keeping it off the record. 

WHAT a mockery of Justice for these official tools 
of the Ring to thus unlawfully build a wall of protection 
around an unsavory witness, so that her false testimony 
might serve the malicious purpose of disbarring a man. 
It seems that such conduct is enough to shock the mor- 
al sense of all who read these pages, and to arouse the 
people to the danger that confronts them by the malad- 
ministration of justice in the Courts of Ring Judges and 
their Referees. Whose life, liberty or property is safe 
in the Courts of New York, or any where else, where 
Ring Judges administers the law? . And they are ad- 
ministering the law to a very large extent all over "the 
land of the free and the home of the brave." 

NOW, the payment of that money was the 
only real question in the case and upon it the 
victim testified; that he paid her that same 
$350. Mr. Lane, the opposing attorney, tes- 
tified ; that he saw the victim count out and 
pay her that same $350. Her own physician 
testified ; that she told him the victim paid her 
$350. The Justice of the Peace testified, that 
she showed him some money and told him 'she 
git it from Mr. Sullivan out of her cases, 
Mrs. Alexander, of 257, Senaca St., Buffalo, 
testified ; that she rented living rooms of her 
and during the time she lived there she told 
her that she had gotten her money from Mr, 
Sullivan. Eva Harris a little thirteen year old 
■ girl testified ; that she slept in the same bed 



32 CORRUPT 

with Julia and Bradford for a week before 
Christmas, 1900, and that Julia told her that 
she had got $350 from her lawyer (meaning 
the victim) . Besides upon her final examina- 
tion, Miss Johnson testified ; that Mr. Sullivan 
had paid her this $350 and her evidence is so 
recorded in the stenographer's minutes. 

So here is the evidence of six unassailable witnesses 
showing that this same $350 in dispute had been paid ; 
besides Miss Johnston herself testified that the same 
money had been paid to her by the victim. Therefore 
it is plainly seen ; the persecutors failed to prove any 
of their charges were true, but on the contrary the evi- 
dence proved them all to be false and malicious ; Not- 
withstanding Referee Taylor decided and reported to 
the Judges, that the charges were all sustained by the 
evidence. 

And according to the previous decree of the Ring's 
Judges of the Appellate Division, they formally con- 
firmed the report of the debauched Referee, and there- 
by decided that the victim had stolen the money. But 
they refused to disbar him, because (as you shall see) 
they could work greater injury upon him by suspending 
him from practice until their further order, which they 
did. 

IF they had disbarred him such decision would 
have been final, and he could have appealed from it to 
the Court of Appeals; where it would have been re- 
versed, because it was contrary to all the evidence on 
both sides of the case. 

So they simply suspended Him from practice until 
their further order, because he could not appeal from 
that, as it was not final, but was still pending and left 
open in their Court for further order, which order they 



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never would make and that would practically disbar 
him forever. 

And thus after having robbed him of his money, 
they robbed him of his honor and of his right to make 
a living ; thereby trying to starve him, the same as the 
Spaniards starved the Cubans. And such is a practical 
illustration of man's equality before the law in the State 
of New York. When the law is administered by Tom 
Piatt's Ring made and ready made Judges. 

IF the victim stole that money he should have been 
disbarred. But when he proved that he paid it, he 
should have been exonerated. There was no middle 
ground that could be taken. He was either guilty or 
innocent, and had a legal right to be treated so by these 
Judges, and they knew it. And when they made their 
trick order suspending him, by that order, and by their 
many other malicious crimes herein they violated their 
oaths of office, and committed the crime of oppression 
for which they should be impeached and sent to pris- 
on. 

It's enough to chill the blood and give every pa- 
triotic citizen the blind staggers ; to read and consider 
the vindictive persecution by these Appellate Judges, 
how they outraged every principle of law and justice in 
trying to ruin the victim, and then followed him with 
the lone evidence of a harlot, and tried to get it in 
shape to serve as a pretext upon which to disbar him, 
and failing, how they then arbritrarily and without any 
evidence, but contrary to all the evidence on both sides 
of the case deliberately and judicially robbed him of 
his law license by suspending him from practice until 
their further order which meant forever. 

Again note the attempted cunning of these Judges ; 
when they deprived the victim of a jury trial, and had 



34 CORRUPT 

despoiled him of his money, they fixed their decision so 
it could not be appealed from ; and in these disbarment 
proceedings they do the same thing, and even commit a 
crime in order to do so. 

They seem to take all the precaution of cracksmen 
or burglars to cover their tracks and keep from expos- 
ure. They preserve the same mum mouth about their 
decisions the sneak thief does about his crimes. They 
dare not offer any opinion for their unholy decisions, 
because they know there is no honest reason to give. 
After they had tried to murder and rob him, these 
Judges determined to rob him of hjs law license so that 
he must leave the State in order to make a living. 

DOES not such low wicked conduct coming from 
such high places, outrival and put to shame the conduct 
of all the world's land pirates for boodle? Was it not 
as bad as highway robbery for these Judges to take 
away his money, his honor, and his right to practice 
law and make a living, without evidence, but contrary 
to all the evidence on both sides of the case? 

Nowhere in the history of civilization has such an 
aggregation of crime and persecution ever been shown 
to exist by the Judges and law power of the land. And 
what a blight and degraded shadow it casts on the hor- 
izon of the great Empire State of New York ! It puts 
to shame all the pretense of justice and the protection 
of the citizen in the Courts of New York State. It en- 
tirely outrivals the persecution of Captain Dreyfus in 
the French Courts. 

Are not nearly all the high Judges of this country 
placed in office by the power of Ring Politicians? And 
hence are not all such Judges as corrupt as these Ring 
Judges of New York? And can such a debauched con- 




JUSTICES APPELLATE DIVISION 4th DEPT., N. Y. 

Peter B. McLennan Presiding Justice Alfred Spring 

Frank C. Laughlin Wm. H. Adams. P. C. Williams 

Conspirators, Perjurers and Anarchists. 



36 COURTS 

dition of the Judiciary remain, and the life of the nation 
be preserved? And can the people of this great nation 
afford to overlook or allow the crimes here pointed out 
and proven to go unredressed and unpunished? 

THE foregoing Judicial Trust and Criminal Com- 
bine, having thus robbed the victim, he moved to New- 
York City, there to try and work out a living for him- 
self and family. And in trying to do so, and to recov- 
er his money the band had robbed him of together with 
damages, he sued twenty of them in the Supreme Court 
in New York for $200,000 damages. 

The complaint against them contained over one 
hundred allegations and was verified by the victim. It 
was based entirely upon the facts, unlawful acts and 
criminal conduct of the defendants in this great crimi- 
nal trust. 

The separate facts and acts of the different mem- 
bers, of the combine considered as a whole, clearly 
proved the existence of the conspiracy ; and the whole 
complaint was provable by the records made and pro- 
ceedings taken against the victim by the different mem- 
bers of the criminal trust or conspiracy. 

PERJURED JUDGES, ETC. 

AND as the complaint was sworn to ^^o the answer 
of each of these defendants must likewise be sworn to, 
otherwise the plaintiff would be entitled to his $200,000 
judgment against those who did not so swear to his 
answer. 

That verification matter placed the defendants be- 
tween the devil and the deep sea ; for if they did not 
deny the allegations of the complaint under oath, they 
would by such failure to d-ny, admit their guilt in the 
conspiracy, besides the victim would then be entitled 



COURTS 37 

to take a Judgment against them for $200,000. 

And if they denied any of ;he material allegations 
in the complaint in their sworn answers, they would 
commit perjury by swearing their denials were true, 
■when they personally knew they were false, and could 
be proven to be false by the aforesaid records and pro- 
ceedings. 

But they knew they could never be successfully 
prosecuted for any perjury they might committ in swear- 
ing to their answers. Because ; the conspirator Sey- 
mour was deputy jury commissioner at Buffalo, and 
when thus acting he had the selection, and manipula- 
tion and drawing of both the Grand and Petit Juries ; 
while these Jug-handle Judges controlled all the courts 
where the perjury was committed. 

Hence there could be scarcely any chance of their 
prosecution and conviction, unless there was a general 
uprising of the people against them, and that was hardly 
possible with their great influence with the newspapers 
there, and their power to quell any attempt with the 
people to punish them. 

Besides the ruined and boycotted victim was then 
four hundred miles away at New York City, with 
scarcely any prospect of him ever returning to Buffalo 
to institute criminal proceedings against them for any 
further crime they might commit. 

So under these conditions each of the whole twenty 
defendants came boldly and defiantly to the front, and 
made and served their separate sworn and verified an- 
swer, and falsely denied therein, many of the material 
allegations in the complaint against them. 

And they each and all thereby committed square 
toed and flat footed perjury, which is provable against 
them by the court records made by themselves in perse- 



38 CORRUPT 

cuting the victim. And he stands ready to prove them 
to be guilty as here charged before any fair jury of 
twelve men in any part of the United States. 

The conspirators thus sued are named as 
follows : John R Hazel, U. S. Judge ; Judges : 
William H. Adams, Alfred Spring, Frank C. 
Laughlin, Peter B McLennan, and Pardon C 
Williams of the Appellate division at Roches- 
ter, N. Y, ; Judges: Henry A. Childs, Fred- 
erick W, Kruse, Daniel J- Kenefick, and John 
C. Lambert, of Buffalo, N. Y. ; John E. 
Pound, U. S. Commissioner ; Charles H. 
Brown and S. Wallace Dempsey, U. S, At- 
torneys ; Abner T. Hopkins, District Attorney ; 
Henry H. Seymour and Joseph W. Taylor 
Referees; Carlton E. Ladd and W. B. Simscn, 
Attorneys ; C. B Penny, of the Tonawanda 
News, and Abram Goodman the Theosophical 
Jew. 

TO briefly illustrate how some of these defendants 
swore knowingly and falsely to the denials in their an- 
swers and thereby committed perjury we state; 

Judge William H. Adams, presiding, falsely 
denied in his sworn answer over (40) ot the 
material facts and allegations in the complaint 
against him, and these other Appelrte Judges ; 
and falsely denied and contradicted the rec- 
ords of his own court which, proved such (40) 
allegations against him were true, and that his 
denials thereof were false : And falsely de- 
nied any knowledge or information thereof suffi- 
cient to form a belief as to the truth or falsety 
of such forty allegations in the complaint, 
when he personally knew that all of the allega- 
tions in the complaint were true and that his 
(40) denials in his answer were all false ; and 
thus Judge Adams committed over (40) crimes 
and perjuries in one fell swoop. 

The sworn answers of the other four Appel- 



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late Judges namely : Spring, Laughlin, Wil- 
liams and McLennan were on the same line 
and contained in substance the same false de- 
nials and perjury as the answer of Judge Ad- 
ams. 

So it is evident without argument ; That all these 
Appellate Judges madj and inserted in their sworn an- 
swers many material and false denials of the allegations 
in said complaint against them, and then knowingly and 
falsely swore that such denials in their answers were 
true ; when they personally knew that such denials were 
false and untrue, and that the allegations in the com- 
plaint against them were true. 

So here is the undeniable and conclusive evidence ; 
proving that these Judges used their official positions to 
rob the victim by unlawful proceedings in their courts, 
and when he sued them for such misconduct and crimes, 
they each falsely denied and contradicted in their sworn 
answers their own court records and proceedings then 
on file in the Clerk's office. Did civilized humanity 
ever before hear of such vicious conduct and unmiti- 
gated perjury? 

People : Just think of these great Judges of the 
State of New York openly and defiantly adding the great 
crime of perjury to their many other sins and crimes, 
in their fight through their official positions to ruin an 
attorney, whose only offense was that of exposing the 
misdeeds and crimes of corrupt Judges and other cor- 
rupt Ring Politicians and officials. 

JUDGE HAZEL'S perjury is shown in this 
way ; He knowingly and unlawfully made and 
inserted many false denials in his sworn an- 
swer, contrary to his personal knowledge of 
such denials, and contrary to the records and 
proceedings made by himself in his own Court, 



40 CORRURP 

and he falsely denied in his said answer, that 
tne victim ever made the affidavit and motion 
described on page 20 of this book, when he 
personally knew that 150 persons, then in 
Court, and his Court Records would contradict 
said false denials, and he then swore that such 
denials were all true, when he knew they were 
all false ; which false swearing was wilful and 
corrupt perjury. And it is evident that he 
committed such perjury to keep from admitting 
his guilt in this Conspiracy, and to prevent 
the victim from obtaining a $200,000 judgment 
against him. 

JUDGE CHILD'S sworn answer to this complaint 
falsely denied : 

That he had ever written any opinion when 
he confirmed Referee Seymour's report ; and 
falsely denied that he ordered the victim to 
pay into Court more than $750. And falsely 
denied that he had any knowledge or informa- 
tion about the same sufficient to form a belief. 

Now at the time Judge Childs made the foregoing 
false denials, he had written an opinion and the same 
was filed with the Clerk and made a Court Record ; and 
a copy thereof had been served upon the victim by the 
opposing attorney, besides such opinion had been printed 
in the record on appeal, and used in the Johnston case 
by the Jug-handle Judges at Rochester, N. Y. 

Besides he knowingly and falsely contradicted the 
records of his own Court made by himself, wren he 
denied any knowledge or information sufficient to form 
a belief, because such records furrdshed the conclusive 
knowledge of the same. 

So here is the undeniable evidence proving; That 
when Judge Childs made these false denials in his an- 
swer and swore they were true, he personally knew they 



COURTS 41 

were false, and that he was swearing false when he so 
swore that his answer was true ; and he knew that he 
was committing perjury by swearing to said denials and 
answer. 

JUDGE KRUSE'S sworn answer to this 
complaint falsely denied : That he unlawfully 
deprived the victim of a Jury trial in this 
Julia Johnston case ; and he further falsely de- 
nied that he ever made any order at all dismiss- 
ing the action for assault against W, B. Simson 
in which the victim had $75. due him. 
Now the truth is ; that at the time Judge Kruse 
made said false denials in his answer, the above 
mentioned order depriving the victim of a jury trial to- 
gether with the papers showing it to be unlawful were 
on file ia the Niagara County Clerk's office. And the 
order dismissing the action against Simson was on file 
in the Erie County Clerk's office. 

Hence it is evident ; that Judge Rruse knowingly 
contradicted the record made himself in his own court, 
and mide such contradictions in his sworn answer; to 
prevent the victim from obtaining a judgment of $200,- 
000 and the great Judge, thus committed great per- 
jury. 

JUDGE LAMBERT made an order in this case re- 
quiring the victim to print all the papers and evidence 
in full without any settlement of the same before the 
Court or Referee unless the attorneys agreed upon a 
shortened record. 

And when Judge Lambert was sued for 
making such malicious and unlawful order, he 
falsely denied in his sworn answer ; "That he 
ever made such order relating to said appeal, 
at all, while at the very time he made such 
false denials, his above described order was 
on file in the Niagara County Clerk's office." 



42 CORRUPT 

So here is the conclusive evidence showing and prov- 
ing ; That Judge Lambert knowingly and falsely in- 
serted in his sworn answer false denials and thereby 
committed willful perjury. 

JUDGE KENNEFiCK, to carry out his part of the 
tragedy in ruining the victim made an unlawful order 
stating therein : 

"That if the defendant (meaning tiie victim) 
did not write out the case as settled by the Ref- 
eree and have him sign it within ten days then 
the case should be deemed abandoned." 




SUPREM" COURT JUDGE KENNEFICK, 

Conspirator and Pt rjuri r. 

And when sued for making this un]aw:'u! order as 
his part in the Conspiracy, thv Judge flatly and falsely 
denied that he ever made the above described order or 



COURTS 43 

any part of it : while at the very time he made such de- 
nials in his answer, his above order was on file in the 
Clerk's office ; and by such false denials and false 
swearing the Judge committed Perjury for the same 
reasons his fellow conspirators did. 

THE chain of perjury made by United States At- 
torneys Brown and Dempsey, U. S. Commissioner 
P:und and District A'torney Hopkins, is so long we can 
only spare space to mention a link and say ; They all 
contradicted under oith the Court Records they helped 
to make in persecuting the victim, and such Court Rec- 
ords prove them to be guilty of perjury ; hence they 
shDull all be incarcerated in states prison. 

CONSPIRATOR. Jury Commissioner and Referee 
Seymour only made (20) false findings contrary to his 
oath and against the victim, and when sued for the 
same ; he falsely denied in his sworn answer that he 
ever made any of such findings, and thus he committed 
v/ilful perjury, which is provable by the court records 
he helped to make. 

ATTORNEY LADD, only committed (33) lies and 
crimes in his Brief to the Appellate Division to deceive 
ih^ Court, and when sued therefor he falsely denied all 
such lies ani crimes, though the record proves him to 
be guilty ; and thus poor Ladd swcre away his soul and 
CDmmicted perjury. 

AND GOODMAN the Theosophical Jew, and Penny 
the Phonographic EJitor, it's enough to say they are 
perjurers the whole year around. 

AND SIMSON the lowest one of these perjurers, 
serves at the tail end of this criminal Octapus, a place 
to which he fitly belongs. 

SECTION (96) of the Penal Code of the State of 



44 CORRUPT 

New York says : That a person who swears that any 
matter stated in his affidavit or other writing is true, 
which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury. 

IT takes uo splitting of hairs to prove such false 
swearing, for the documentary evidence proving the 
same stands out as plain as the towering heights of 
mountain peaks ; and the law deciding that such false 
swearing is perjury, is as clear as light and as certain 
as death and taxes. 

And since these defendants committed the great 
crime of perjury, no excuse or defense can be made for 
them in relation to their other crimes herein stated ; for 
by the fact of such perjury, they have proved beyond a 
doubt their everlasting infamy, and the absolute cer- 
tainty of their guilt in all the infamy and crime here 
stated or implied. 

In other words ; If they had been guiltless, 
they would have admitted these facts and claimed they 
were all innocentlv done. But as soon as they denied 
their own Court Records and proceedings, they plead 
their own guilt, and thereby placed themselves in that 
Pillory of Infamy, from which there is no escape in this 
world whatever may be their chances in the world to 
come. 

It is well known that criminals belonging to the 
same class usually stand in and help their pah out 
when caught, and accordingly the victim's damage case 
was moved from New York City by a Corrupt Judge 
there, to Buffalo to be tried by the conspirators them- 
selves. 

Then the victim moved back to- Buffalo and printed 
a book containing 115 pages giving a full detailed ac- 
count of such crimes with illustrations. And to perma- 
nently establish a history of these crimes, he took about 



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two hundred of such books to the Court house in Buffalo 
where some of these Judges were holding Court and 
there gratutiously distributed to them, the Supervisors, 
Aldermen and various officers all of such books. And 
he so distributed Two Thousand such books throughout 
the State to Judges, Attorneys, Bankers, Business men 
and Law Students of law schools. And the Judges 
never made any reply to such open charge of their 
guilt. 

And in January 1902, he served a sworn copy of 
the book with a complaint describing such perjury upon 
Thomas Penny the District Attorney of Erie County at 
Buffalo ; and so served the Grand Jury of Erie County, 
then in session, and requested both the Attorney and 
Jury to indict either the Judges for Perjury, or the vic- 
tim for libelling them, as one or the other were certain- 
ly guilty by the record and the book. 

But the District Attorney knowing these Judges 
were guilty of Perjury, he refused to present either their 
crimes or the victim for libelling them to the Grand Ju- 
ry ; and the Jury likewise refused to do their duty and 
inquire into these crimes. And the reason was, they 
were all controlled by the power of Ring politicians, and 
Jug-handle Judges. 

And thus the District Attorney knowing the guilt 
of these Judges, aided and abetted them through his 
office in avoiding exposure and punishment ; thereby 
making himself an Acceffeory to all the crime here ex- 
posed against them, and committed the further crime of 
willful omission official duty. And such is a practical 
illustration of the criminal effect and working of Ring 
politics under Piatt's boss and Ring rule in New York. 
And it is very closely duplicated all over the United 
States where the Ring rules. 



46 CORRUPT 

Besides thesa Gran 1 Jurors vijlat-ii Ih'iir oaths and 
made themselves liable to criminal punishment in re- 
fusing to eximine in;o thise crimes ; and all by reason 
of the power of secret Ria^^ P litico and the power of 
these perjured Judges. 



DITTRICT ATTORNEY PINNEY, 
Accessory to all the Ciimes of these Judges. 

A copy of this book was presented to three different 
Grand Juries of Erie County N. Y. and they refused to 
indict the victim for libel or the Judges for perjury ; 
while it is self evident that eithef they or he are guilty. 

So here are three grand juries consisting of Sixty 
men who are morally and criminally debauched by the 
power of Ring politics in order to protect these Ring 
Judges from exposure and punishment. 

And we alarmingly submit ; That when so many 
Supreme Court Judges and other high offiicials are thus 



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proven to be guilty of the great crimes here exposed, 
and when they are run down and chased into a grand 
jury room and there find protection, ty the prostitution 
of a district attorney's office and Six y grand jurrors ; 
a criminal condition is presented that is not only alarm- 
ing and disgraceful to the state of New York, but the 
whole country. 

HIGH- HOLDER HOOKER. 

The Ring having demonstrated its power to control 
and di base grand juries felt bold and strong, and con- 
cluded it was time to have the victim's $200,000 case 
for damages against these Judges dismissed, so it 
brought the same on before that true and tried ringster 
Judge Hooker. 

After the jury were sworn to try the case and the 
vxtim had spent some time in stating the Court Records 
that proved the perjury and crimes of these Judges, 
and the jury were becoming eagerly interested in the 
statement of criminal facts. Judge Hooker, interrupted 
and arbitrarly, despotically and contrary to all law and 
justice, dismissed the case without allowing the victim 
tD introduce or give any evidence whatever to prove 
these crimes against the Judges. 

Before Judge Hooker dismissed the case, he knew 
all about how these fellows had persecuted the victim 
and robbed him of his money, his honor, and his right 
to make a living by practicing his profession. So by 
dismissing the case under these conditions, he com- 
mitted moral perjury aad proved himself to be saturated 
with more moral turpitude than all these other Judges 
and criminals here combined. 

He is the same Judge Hooker that was charged 
with judicial crookedness in the Bissert police case. 
And is now charged with postal frauds and felonies in 



48 CORKURr 

the Bristow report. Besides the State Bar Association 
is after his Judicial scalp for such infamy. He is more 
ignorant but no more criminal than the remainder of 
these Judicial High-holders. Thus one by one these 
criminals are coming to some bad end. 
BOYCOTT. 

The victim having thus found that he was boycotted 
in both the civil and criminal Courts of New York, he 
tried to obtain relief and make a living by lecturing and 
selling their infamy published in his Book from the 
rostrum. 

Accordingly he rented the Ellicott Theater at Buf- 
falo, N. Y., for a series of Lectures and advertised the 
same by cuts, dodgers, and bills But on the night for 
the first lecture, the Theatre Manager skipped to Can- 
ada, the doors were safely locked and the gas cut out. 

The victim cannot prove these Judges hired the 
manager to skip, or the gas to be cut ; but he can prove 
by their own Court Records that they are each and all 
guilty of perjury, and should therefore be impeached 
and imprisoned. 

He then tried to obtain Halls in the country villages 
of Erie County for his lectures and found the boycott 
there sure and complete. 

PENN YAN, N. Y. 

Then he went a hundred miles East from Buffalo to 
Penn Yan in Yates County and there obtained a hall 
and advertised a lecture ; and no sooner was that done 
than the persecutors fixed their tools, and the boycott 
began, but they were not able to close tne hall on him, 
though they kept many from attending tre lecture. 

He sold several books at the lecture and in the 
town, and then procured a man to go before the Grand 



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Jury about to convene and have him indicted for libel, 
so that he might have a jury trial and prove their guilt 
on his defense for libel. 

But just before the Grand Jury was empanneled, 
that man saw the Ring's District Attorney of the Coun- 
ty, and so the day the Jury set, the man received a few 
dollars and then lit out for tall timber; and the victim 
could not get a chance to prove these Judges guilty of 
pjrjury upon his indictment for libeling them in that 
cjunty. 

STEUBEN, N. Y. 

HE did not loose faith nor give up his efforts to 
bring these criminals to justice but tried again by going 
over into his native County of Steuben ; and there he 
had himself arrested and bound over to the Grand Jury 
for publishing and circulating his alleged libellous book. 

Six witnesses testified before the Grand Jury that 
he had given a book to them, and told them it was the 
worst libel ever published in America; and thus the 
crime of libel was clearly proven against him. 

The Ring's District Attorney, believing the victim 
wanted to explain such charge away, let him go before 
the Grand Jury, but instead of explaining it away, he 
admitted that the book was the worst libel ever printed 
and that he was guilty, unless he could prove it true 
before a trial Jury. 

And he then and there asked the Grand Jury not tc- 
commit a crime by refusing to indict him after he had 
admitted the libel ; but to indict him and thereby make 
him prove the Book to be true or to be convicted and 
sent to prison. But the Jury refused to indict, thereby 
proving the Jury's orders from this Criminal Trust of 
Supreme Court Judges. 



50 CORRUPT 

And by such refusal and obeying of orders, the 
Jurors violated their oaths, committed a crime, pre-, 
vented the exposure of the Ring's attempt to murder 
the victim, prevented the exposure of these Judges 
ratification of such attempted murder, prevented ^.he ex- 
posure of their Perjury and other crimes, and thus 
suppressed all these crimes, that are nothing less than 
Anarchy and a new species of Treason, all of which 
would have come out in evidence upon the trial of the 
victim for libel 

And so there in the farmer County of Steuben, the 
Ring proved its power to cause Grand Juries to protect 
Ring Criminals from prosecution. And for the fourth 
time in this persecution, the Ring caused Grand Juries 
to ratify and confirm this attempted murder of the vic- 
tim and all the Perjury, Anarchy, and quasi Treason 
here explained. 

WHAT serions questions to the moral and business 
world to know ; That a band of Judicial Robbers and 
Perjurers are making the decisions that guide and gov- 
ern the people of the great State of New York? And 
which Decisions are used as authority by nearly all the 
civilized world? And how awful it is to know, that in- 
stead of punishing these attempted murderers, these 
Judges conspired and robb=id and ruined the same vic- 
tim, their brother Ring Criminals sought to murder? 

How deep and broad such questions grow as we 
consider : That the Judical function of our Govern- 
ment permeates every industrial, social and religious 
avenue of life, over-rides Legislatures, Governors and 
Presidents, disposes of life, liberty and property ; and 
is therefore the very guardian of the people and life of 
the nation? 

How immense and immeasurable is the evil wcrked 



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by this Republican Ring? It caused these fourteen (14) 
Supreme Court Judges of New York to corrupt them- 
selves, disgrace their families, dishor.or the State and 
rob the Law of its virtue. It caused these Judges to be 
hurled from the mountain top of Lustre and Fame to 
wallow at the feet of debauchery and shame. 

The combined sin, crime and wickedness of all the 
money Trusts, Combines and Boodlers of the land, do 
not equal in moral turpitude and govermental danger, 
the baneful influence, injury wrought, and that will be 
wrought by these and other Ring Judges throughout the 
Country. And if such is true, then how powerless are 
- wjrds to describe such woeful conditions, and how 
seriously they affect Eighty Millions of people? 

We do not court the ruin of these individual men, 
but we do court the ruin of the Ring that placed them in 
official power and then caused them to use the power to 
commit the crimes here exposed. Because we know, 
that these political and judicial facts establish the dead 
line of liberty and the approaching end of civil rights 
for the poor and powerless. 

And because we know ; That for the last fifteen 
years both the State and United States Courts have 
been packed wiih Ring Judges until a rich person can 
not be punished for crime, and until it is now im- 
possible for the poor and obscure to obtain their legal 
right's when opposed by Ring Politicians, Trusts or Mag- 
nates, or when a Ring Attorney is opposed to an honest 
independent man. The Courts must be pure or revolu- 
tion must ensue. 



(^ mtnmmn °^ 



CHESE (14) Supreme Court Judges of New York 
having lead the Sixty Conspirators that robbed 
and attemped to murder the victim, and then boycotted 
him in all the Civil and Crfminal Courts so that he 
could not obtain any redress, it was plain that in order 
to live and work out life's problem he mus*. leave his 
native State and go to some other place. 

So he boarded a Western train and landed in Okla- 
lahoma City, Okla., in February 1903. There he was 
soon admitted to practice law upon his untarnished Law 
License from California, and in a few days he was act- 
ively engaged in the celebrated Hoover conspiracy 
case. 

And, as usual in such crimes, the principle actor in 
this conspiracy was a wom.an (named Harris) , who 
with her husband and two young daughters had con- 
spired to defraud and old man named Hoover of all his 
property. 

In a brief word, she left her husband and daugh- 
ters at home and went forty miles to the old man's hotel, 
and there through false pretenses, in a short time she 
had him so entranced and entangled that he married 
and Deeded all his property to her upon the same day : 
She in the meantime having gotten a fake divorce for 
the purpose. 

Then she began the freeze-out process, and in 
less time than it took to capture the old gent, she had 
him frozen out and left standing on the cold barren 



COURTS 53 

edge of poverty and grief, by reason of which, brain 
fever was superinduced and in a few days his body was 
laid in the City of the Dead, his spirit gone to its 
maker. 

During her escapade she was charged with having 
committed many crimes among which was perjury. 
And as Ralph Ramer was the County Attorney at Okla- 
homa City, it was his duty to procure her indictment for 
such perjury. But instead of doing so, he secretly did 
all he could to prevent her indictment : Notwithstand- 
ing the victim quietly secured her indictment for this 
perjury from the Grand Jury in July 1903. 

MURDER FACTS. 

In a short time thereafter the victim went to the 
County Attorney's Office and there requested him to ex- 
amine a complaint and authorize a warrant to issue 
thereon : It was the sworn duty of the County At- 
torney to examine all such complaints, and if found 
sufficient to authorize a warrant to issue. But instead 
of examining this complaint he immediately and in 
great anger said he would dismiss that damned Hoover 
indictment, and ordered the victim to get out of his of- 
fice and shouted that he would get his gun and shoot 
and kill him. 

The County Attorney and victim were scarcely ac- 
quainted and up to that time never had any unpleasant 
words, so the victim did not expect, and was not pre- 
pared for such a reception ; therefore he started to leave 
the office, and the County Attorney hurried to a desk in 
his office and thrust his hand in a drawer to find his 
gun, but not finding it there, he rushed back across the 
office to another desk and there found his revolver and 
as soon as he got it in his hand he turned ashy pale. 



54 CORRUPT 

By that time the victim had gotten near the door 
leading out of the office, and the County Attorney then 
and there pointed his revolver at the departing victim, 
and swore and said he would shoot and kill him and 
called him many vile names : At that juncture the vic- 
tim's client Margret Fay rushed to the assailant and so 
obstructed him that he could not immediately shoot, and 
in the meantime the victim got out of sight and out of 
range of the Assassin and his gun : After which the 
County Attorney swore to Mrs. Fay that if the victim 
ever came into his office again he would get his gun and 
shoot and kill him, and that he would kill him any way. 

The County Attorney was secretly angry because 
this woman had been indicted in her conspiracy to de- 
fraud this old man of Seventy. But up to the time of 
his attempted murder, the victim did not know of such 
anger, and did not even suspicion that this Officer of the 
Law bore him any malice or ill-will whatever. 

And thus are briefly told the salient facts of this 
attempt to commit cold-blooded murder ; and now we 
will briefly state how the leading Ring Republicans of 
the Territory protected this Ring Criminal from exposure 
and punishment, so as to keep the Machine in good re- 
pair aad repute for future political work and crimi- 
nal use. 

THE County Attorney was disqualified from prose- 
cuting this criminal case because he was the defendant : 
So the victim embodied all these murder facts in affida- 
vits and applied thereon to District Judge Burwell, of 
Oklahoma City, (as a Court) to appoint a special At- 
torney to prosecute this attempted murder case. The 
Judge retused to make any such appointment, and falsely 
claimed the law did not authorize him as Court or Judge 
to do so : And to try and shift the blame of his derilic- 



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55 



tion and turpitude, he argued that the Governor alone 
had the power to make such an appoi-tment. 




UNITED STATES JUDGE BURWELL 
Accused of Conspiracy, Etc., Etc. 

Now the Oklahoma Statutes say : "That when the 
County Attorney is unable to attend to his duties, the 
District Court may appoint some attorney to temporari- 
ly act in his place." So it is evident that the Coun- 
ty Attorney being disqualified to act, that he was as 
much "unable to attend to his duties" as though his 
back was broken, or he was imprisoned in the peniten- 
tiary for his attempt to murder. 

Then under this plain law and these attempted 



56 CORRUPT 

murder facts, which were all legally known to Judge 
Burwell, the question is ; Why did he not do his plain, 
moral and legal duty, and appoint some Attorney to 
prosecute this attempted murderer, when he knew that 
his refusal would impede and obstruct the proper and 
due administration of the law, and help to screen and 
protect this guilty County Attorney from prosecution 
and punishment? The answer is plain. Ring Poli- 
tics. 

Again, the Organic Act of Oklahoma Territory 
says: "District Courts possess authority to redress 
all wrongs committed against the laws of the Territory 
affecting people or property." 

Now Judge Burwell knew, that the law never grants 
power or authority, but that such grant carries with it 
all incidental power neccessary for its execution. He 
knew this Organic Act gave him the power to redress 
this wrong and crime, and to do all things necessary 
to prosecute this felon, such as ; calling a Grand Jury, 
appointing an attorney to prosecute him, etc., etc. So 
the questions are : Why did the Judge violate this Or- 
ganic Act and his official oath by refusing to appoint an 
attorney to redress this wrong and prosecute this felon? 
Answer as above, Ring Politics. 

To again show that Judge Burwell had power and 
authority to appoint an attorney to prosecute this felon 
we say ; That among the necessary adjuncts of a Court 
of general jurisdiction are those of Clerk, Crier, and 
Prosecuting Attorney. And when any of these officers 
are unable to act by reason of sickness, absence or dis- 
qualification, the Judge and Court has inherent power 
to appoint some competent person to temporarily per- 
form their duty to the end, that justice may be admin- 



COURTS 57 

istered and the law enforced. This is the universal rule 
and law of the land. 

And what an apparently foolish and corrupt thing 
it is for a Judge or Court to say and decide ; That the 
law is so weak and impotent that when a County Attor- 
ney murders or attempts to murder, no attorney can be 
appointed to prosecute him ; and as a consequence the 
criminal can escape prosecution and punishment for his 
crime. Common sense and Common decency revolts at 
such a beggarly and false construction of the law. 

So we say it is perfectly plain ; That when Judge 
Burwell, refused to appoint a temporary attorney to 
prosecute this attempted murderer, he evaded an un- 
pleasant duty upon a plea of false pretenses ; which 
false pretenses ; are prcven by the Organic Act of the 
Territory, the Statutes of the Territory, and the Inher- 
ent power of all Courts with jurisdiction the same as 
his, and by his own subsequent decision. 

And aside from the Judge impeding and obstruct- 
ing the prosecution ot this felon as aforesaid, he threw 
all the moral and official weight of his office against 
such prosecution, by refusing to call the attention of the 
Grand Jury to such crime ; also by refusing to call the 
attention of the Govenor to such crime, whom he falsely 
clamed had sole power to appoint a prosecuting attorney 
for the case. 

And to further prove the Judge's false pretenses 
in this case, and to show his partiality in the administraion 
of law, we state ; That after he had refused to call the 
attention of the Grand Jury to this case he directed the 
the Grand Jurys attention to some alleged deficits of 
City officials, and as a result two of the most prominent 
Democratic officials were indicted ; One of whom de- 
manded an immediate trial and was promptly acquitted 



58 CORRUPT 

by a Jury. And the Political Ret cf these indictments 
then so publically appearing, all prosecution of the oth- 
er Democratic official was dropped like a hot potato. 

GOVERNOR 

AS soon as Judge Burwell had thus blocked the 
prosecution of the County Attorney, the victim laid the 
matter before the Civic Federation of Oklahoma City, 
and the Federation selected a Committee of Three per- 
sons, who went next morning to the Capital City (Guth- 
rie) and there presented the whole matter with affida- 
vits proving such attempted murder to the Gov- 
ernor. 

The Committee explained to the Governor how 
Judge Burwell had refused to appoint an attorney to 
prosecute this attempted murder case, and to present it 
to the Grand Jury which was then in session. The 
Committee further explained how many officials at Ok- 
lahoma City were in league with criminals and toughs 
and as a consequence crime was running rampant and 
corrupting the morals of the city, and that this County 
Attorney would not prosecute these criminals. 

The Governor expressed himself as greatly shucked 
at such criminal conditions, and particularily so at 
Judge Burwell's refusal to appoint an attorney to prose- 
cute the County Attorney. He promised to appoint 
some attorney to prosecute this case before the Grand 
Jury then in session ; and to write and let the Committee 
know the next day what he had done in the matter. 

The Committee never received the promised letter 
from the Governor, and he also failed to appoint an at- 
torney to prosecute this felon, and as a presumptive 
consequence he was not indicted or punished. 

The Organic Act of the Territory, It's statutes and 



COURTS 59 

his official oath all require the Governor "shall take 
care that the laws are faithfully executed." And when 
the Judge refused to appoint an attorney, the same law 
made it the Governor's official duty to appoint such at- 
torney, so the law would be faithfully executed. Hence 
we ask : Why he refused to make such appointment 
and thereby allowed the law to go unexecuted, and the 
felon to escape indictment and punishment? 

And we further ask : If this felonious County At- 
torney, had been a Democratic heeler instead of a Ring 
Republican, would not this Republican Judge and Gov- 
eroor.each have been willing to faithfully execute the 
law? And would they not have immediately appointed 
an attorney to prosecute the criminal? 

ACCESSORIES. 

NOW, when both the Judge and Governor refused 
to appoint such an attorney, they lawfully knew from 
creditable and undisputed affidavits that this County At- 
torney had committed a Felony, by attempting to shoot 
and murder the victim. Besides, this culprit has practi- 
cally admitted his guilt. 

And the law says : Ti at a person who knows that 
a felony has been committed and aids or helps the 
offender to avoid prosecution or punishment, is an Ac- 
cessory to such felony, which means that he is guilty 
and subject to criminal punishment. 

Now by reason of this Judge and Governor refus- 
ing to appoint an attorney to prosecute this felonious 
County Attorney, is it not plain that they have aided 
and helped him to avoid prosecution and punishment, 
and thereby made themselves Accessories to his at- 
tempted murder crime? 

Private persons can not ordinarily become Acces- 



60 COURTS 

series to felonies by silence or inaction : But the rule is 
different as to public officers whose duty it is to admin- 
ister the law against such offenders, and especially 
where their duty, and their motive for not doing it, is so 
clear as it is in this case. 

CONSPIRACY. 

Under the law of this Territory : If two or more 
persons conspire to commit any act injurious to public 
morals, to pervjrt justice, or to obstruct the due admin- 
istration of the law, such persons are guilty of the 
crime of conspiracy : And a conspiracy is usually 
proven by circumstantial evidence and the reasonable 
inferences drawn therefrom. 

Now, under this legal definition of a Conspiracy 
and the usual manner of proving one we say : That 
the omission and refusal of Judge Burwell to do his 
duty by appointing an attorney to prosecute this Felon, 
also his refusal to suggest such crime to the Grand Jury 
and the Governor : Together with the Governor's lying 
to the committee from Oklahoma City, and his omission 
and refusal to do his duty by appointing an attorney to 
prosecute this attempted murderer ; together with the 
moral and official weight of these high officials being 
thus thrown against the prosecution of this County At- 
torney, these facts have when taken and considered to- 
gether contributed to the same general result to wit : 
That of injuring public morals, perverting justice, ob- 
structing the due administration of the law, and by 
reason thereof this Judge and Governor are apparently 
guilty of the Crime of Conspiracy in preventing the in- 
dictment, prosecution and punishment of their political 
partisan and this attempted murderer. 



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ATTORNEY GENERAL. 

IT throws some light and certainty upon this con- 
spiracy besides its fair to say ; That the Governor ap- 
parently attempted to shift the blame of his own official 
misconduct in refusing to execute the law by appointing 
an attorney to prosecute the attempted murderer, and 
to make such shift he referred the matter to his own 
appointed Attorney General of the Territory, who 
through his ardent desire to screen this partisan crim- 
inal wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Committee, wherein 
he so glaringly lied in his eulogy of his criminal parti- 
san, and tried to ignore and pervert all the attempted 
murder facts, that he plainly showed his partisan pur- 
pose and made himself absolutely disgusting for want of 
fairness, decency and honesty in the administration of 
his office and th€ law: And his acts with his office 
easily bear the interpretation that he was a Co-conspir- 
ator in shielding this County Attorney. 

SELWYN DOUGLAS. 

THAT it adds clearness and certainty to this con- 
spiracy to state the following facts : After the Grand 
Jury had been in session Ten Days and its work was 
about done, it was quite generally known that the vic- 
tim intended to secure the indictment of the County At- 
torney for his attempt to murder. And then, it so hap- 
pened that the County Attorney appointed his last law 
partner namely, Selwyn Douglas, Deputy County At- 
torney, who then filed his appointment and oath of 
office with the County Clerk, of which, no revocation 
has since been filed. 

Mr. Douglas is the Register of the United States 
land office at Oklahoma City, and the conceded Ring 



62 CORRUPT 

Republican General there. We do not say that he was 
appointed to manipulate the Grand Jury, so that ii 
would indict the previously mentioned Democratic offi- 
cials, and would not indict his former law partner 
namely, the murderous County Attorney. 

But we do say ; The Grand Jury heard the evidence 
which clearly proved the County Attorney was guilty of 
an attempt to commit an unprovoked murder: And 
under such evidence the jury refused to indici. only 
lacking One vote according to report. 

The day after the Grand Jury had adjourned, the 
Civic Federation of Oklahoma City caused the arrest of 
the County .\ttorney in the District Court upon a charge 
of having wilfully refused to prosecute the open and 
notorious gamblers of the City. 

The law says "it shall be the duty of the County 
Attorney to appear in the District Court of his County 
and prosecute all criminal actions on behalf of the Ter- 
ritory and further that he may appoint a Deputy to per- 
form such duty." 

Now according to the record Mr. 1 Douglas was 
Deputy County Attorney at the time of Mr. Ramar's ar- 
rest. And contrary to all the duty devolving upon him 
as such Deputy and under such facts and law, he went 
into the District Court and there, contrary to such duty, 
openly defended Mr. Ramer upon such criminal charge. 

And after he worked all day and half the night on 
the defense of such criminal action. Judge Burwell 
claimed he had found a hole in the complaint, through 
which the County Attorney escaped without a trial on 
the merits. 

The law provides that officials (like Mr. Douglas) 
who wilfully fail or refuse to perform their duty are 



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guilty of the crime of a Misdemeanor. Now by reason 
of such law and the fact that Mr. Douglas as Deputy- 
County Attorney failed to prosecute the defendent Ra- 
mer, but defended him contrary to such law and his 
official duty, it is apparent that he not only violated 
his official oath but cnmmitted the crime of a Misde- 
meanor, for which he is liable to imprisonment and dis- 
barment. 

After the foregoing, Mr Douglas appeared in an- 
other Court where the County Attorney was on trial for 
a different crime, and there he took the witness stand 
and gave evidence in behalf of the accused which is 
claimed to be false. Now considering all these facts in 
relation to Mr. Douglas, we ask, was he not appointed 
Deputy County Attorney by Mr. Ramer for the purpose 
of keeping the Grand Jury from indicting him for his 
attempt to murder? 

JUDGE BURWELL AGAIN. 

AFTER the County Attorney had been protected 
from prosecution as here shown, the Civic Federation of 
Oklahoma City filed charges with President Roosevelt 
against Attorney General Roberts, Register Douglas, 
Judge Burwell and Governor Ferguson and asked for 
the removal from office of the Judge and Governor. 

The charges contained substantially the same mat- 
ter and criminal accusations as herein stated against 
them. And after waiting for some months and nothing 
being heard from the charges, the victim made another 
application in Judge Burwell's Court for the appoint- 
ment of a Special Attorney to prosecute the attempted 
murderer. 

The facts and the law regarding these applications 
had not changed, but the facts surrounding the Judge 



64 CORRUPT 

had changed. He was then charged and chased by the 
Civic Federation for having made a wrong and malicious 
decision upon this first application for the purpose of 
preventing the prosecution of this political partisan. 

That decision was the basis of all the charges made 
against him before the President and in this book. And 
under the force and fire of such charges he appointed 
such an Attorney, thereby actually admitting that his 
former decision was malicious and wrong, and that the 
charges based thereon were true. 

It must be clear to all who read these facts : That 
Judge Burwell intentionally boycotted the law and pre- 
vented its due administration by refusing to appoint 
an Attorney to prosecute this attemped murderer for the 
political reasons herein stated and seen : And that he 
never would have made such appointment had he not 
been chased and run down by these charges ; futher that 
he only made the same to try and hedge and hide his 
own tracks of official misconduct. Its a plain proposi- 
tion, no futher statement netd be made. 

THE Special Attorney appointed by Judge Burwell 
had County Attorney Ramer brought into Judge Har- 
per's Court and there charged with the crime of simply 
pointing a revolver at the victim, instead of attempting 
to murder him. 

That charge gave the culprit the right to a jury 
trial of Six men, and made an opening for his judicial 
whitewashing, which was speedily done according to the 
following facts and proceedings : 

The law gave Judge Harper the power to secretly 
select a jury list of Eighteen (18) names from which a 
jury of Six men might be taken to try the case. He se- 
lected such jury list, but before the six jurymen were 



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so taken to try the case, the vctira filed an afiidavit and 

made a motion thereon asking him to vacate and set 
aside such jury list. 




fe_ 



PROBATE JUDGE HARPER, 

The Accused Jury Packer. 

The affidavit, among other things, stated : 
"That the Whole Eighteen (IS) so selected by 
Judge Harper, were in favor of persons vio- 
la- ing the criminal law of the Territory at Ok- 
lahoma City, by openly carrying on gambling 
and doing other vicious and immoal conduct." 

That ihe defendant was likewise in favor 
of such iaimoral and unlawful conduct the 
same as the Jurors selected to try him ; also 



66 CORRUPT 

that such Jurors were biased against the pros- 
ecution and prejudiced in favor of the defend- 
ant ; and by reason of such premises none of 
such jurymen were competent to fairly try the 
case, and were not such good and true men as 
the law contemplated should be empanaeled to 
try criminal actions, and especially that one 
against the County Attorney. 

That by reason of such facts and condi- 
tions it was apparent that a trial of the action 
before any Six of said named jurors would be 
nothing less than a farce, a mockery and a 
false pretense of administering the law and 
justice, and that he (the victim) would not 
silently consent to any such conduct. 

The affidavit closed by asking as follows: 
"That said jury list be vacated and set aside, 
and that a new and fair jury list be prepared 
by the Court composed of good true and law- 
abiding men wno were in favor of enforcing 
the law and punishing all violaters thereof 
without regard to class, occupation or official 
position." 

There was no contradiction whatever made to the 
affidavit and no defense or opposition made to the mo- 
tion: but as soon as the victim started to read the affi- 
davit upon such motion, Judge Harper immediately de- 
manded the same and silently read it and then instantly 
and contrary to all the foregoing facts an^ the law 
over-riiled such motion, and knowingly and unlawfully 
retained all of such biased, prejudiced and incompetent 
jurymen from which Six were taken by the defendant 
and Judge Burwell's Special County Attorney to try 
the case. 

And as stated in the affidavit, the trial was an open 
mockery of justice and the law from start to finish with 
the Special Attorney contributing thereto, by refusing to 



COURTS 67 

call over hilf the witnesses for the prosecution, and by- 
neglecting to cross-examine nearly all the defendant's 
witnesses, some of whom were then under indictment by 
the Coun'y Attorney. 

Notwithstanding tne Special Attorney thus-wise and 
otherwise helped the defendant out, still the evidence 
clearly proved that the County Attornej;- was guilty of 
an unprovoked attempt to murder ; but the Jury per- 
functorily performed it's presumptively prepared perfidy, 
and the White-washed defendant walked out of Court 
thus licensed to finish his attempted murder. 

The County Attorney calling witnesses ignorant of 
the facts of his case, but whom he held under indict- 
ment, to help swear him out, with the Special Attorney 
thus helping him out, and with Judge Harper helping 
him out by selecting and retaining a jury thus shown to 
be biased and prejudiced in his favor, presents a case 
of such apparent fraud and corruption, that an honest 
man sickens at the sight. 

And by reason of such facts, the objects and aims 
ot aspiring men in official life, and what they will do to 
further their own political interest by helping their polit- 
ical partisans into office and out of trouble ; We contend 
that it IS as cle^ir as light and as certain as death that 
Judge Harper packed that jury to Acquit the County At- 
torne}^^ at.d thereby help his own future political interest. 

We further contend : That at the present day Re- 
publican officials are properly called Ring Republicans. 
That by the high-toned and official sample lot here pre- 
sented, it is proven that the Ring will through it's mem- 
bers use their official power to cormit any crime neces- 
sary to help each other out of crime or trouble, so as to 
keep their Machine in good repute for political use, and 
that the officials here in Oklahoma are no exception but 



68 PRESIDENT 

rather an extension of such rule, and that b}'' reason of 
all the premises expressed and implied, that. Judge Hur- 
per, Judge Burwell, Governor Ferguson, Attorney Gen- 
eral Roberts, and Selwyn Douglas all did the wicked and 
unlawful things herein complained of against ih.em for 
the purpose of protecting and screening this n.uu.ercus 
County Attorney from prosecution and punithrr.tnt to 
preserve th.eir political machine in good repute ft. r 
future use and personal gain. And that they are mc re 
guilty of moral turpitude than the County Attorney who 
attempted to murder the victim. 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

The President received these charges against the 
Ring criminals of Oklahoma, and to cap the clirrax, of 
all the single-handed official infanny since the treascn 
days of Benedict Arnold, he sent these ciiu.inal charges 
back to the accused Attorney General and Governor for 
examination. 

He is the only Chief Executive of a civilized ra- 
tion that ever made persons accused of crime the Judge s 
in their own cases: Such savage, barbarous conduct 
rough-rides all decency and amounts to nothing less 
than treason. The only defense that can te made to 
such bold infamy is political insanity. 

Whe'n the President sent these verified cha iges 
back to the accused criminals 1o be the Judges of their 
own crimes, he outraged the whole moral and criminal 
code of jurisprudence and butchered the fundamental 
principles of our government : He stabbed the honor 
and fairness of the Nation in the heart and outrivalled 
the treachery of Brutus : He put to shame all the 
criminals of the country and proved himself to be the 



ROOSEVELT 69 

most darigerous Conspirator in this whole criminal 
category. 

He apparently did these things because he wants to 
be elected President, and knew the investigation of these 
charges would prove the persecution of the victim by 
the Ring Republicans and their several attempts to mur- 
der him, ani that would cost his party many respectable 
votes: Sd to av Did such personal disaster, he assumed 
the power of a Tyrant and made these criminals their 
own Judges, thus placing them in position to again con- 
spire and in the execution of their criminal trust bury 
these charges and their guilt in some lone grave with 
their murdered victim. 

IN NEW YORK 

Through the Political power of these Judicial De- 
bauchees of Naw York and Tom Piatt's Ring of crimi- 
nal Paliticians, John R. Hazel a ward heeler of Buffalo, 
N. Y., was made a United States Judge, and soon 
thereafter he became a criminal Conspirator and Per- 
jurer, and then administered the oath of office to Presi- 
dent Roosevelt at Buffalo, N. Y. 

In November, 1901, the victim verified a Copy of 
his Book as charges against these New York Conspira- 
tors and sent the same to President Roosevelt. The 
Book showed the actual facts and crimes constituting 
such Conspiracy, and that the President had uncon- 
ciously taken his official oath from such conspiring and 
perjured United States Judge. And requested the 
President to investigate such accusation and if found to 
be true, to remove the Judge, stating that it would be a 
great insult to America's (80) Millions of people to 
have their Chief Executive take his oath of office from 
such a criminal Judge unless he was removed. 



70 PRESIDENT 

At the same time the victim also sent a verified 
copy of such book as charges to Governcr Odell of New 
York and requested him to investigate these crimes and 
Conspirators and put the boycotted law in operation. 
But the Governor being the pivot of the State Ring and 
the President the King-bolt of the National Machine, 
neither of them made any answer or reply. There mo- 
tives in not replying and their criminal neglect in the 
administration of the law is already plainly seen and 
will more specifically appear as we proceed. 

After the foregoing facts the victim wrote and 
mailed to President Roosevelt several letters trying to 
induce him to investigate the charges made against 
this United States Judge for conspiracy in office and 
perjury. But the President would not investigate nor 
even condescend to the amenities of his office by ac- 
knowledging the receipt of any of these letters, books or 
charges. 

And so in June, 1903, the victim mailed to Presi- 
dent Roosevelt another copy of his book as charges 
proving the criminal guilt of all these Ring Republicans 
in office and wrote, properly enclosed, and properly 
mailed a letter to him under a Special Delivery Stamp 
which letter was as follows : 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, 

Dear Sir : — The fact that you have neglect- 
ed for nearly two years to investigate these 
charges against Judge Hazel for conspiracy in 
office, and perjury causes me to believe that 
you do not intend to do so, and in looking for 
a reason I have conclued that it is based upon 
personal and political reasons as follows : 

You know that Senator Piatt is at the head 
of the Ring Republicans of New York, and 
through the criminal Judges named in my book 



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and other ringsters he controls the Republican 
party of the State. 

And you desiring to succeed yourself as 
President fear that should you investigate this 
criminal Judge, the New York Ring would refuse 
you the National Delegates which might defeat 
your nomination, hence your refusal to investi- 
gate this Judge and turn the criminal out. 

Again, you necessarily know that to investi- 
gate Judge Hazel would be like investigating 
this whole criminal bunch, as the facts are so 
blended together ; and that the exposure of all 
ttiese high-toned criminals would surely defeat 
the Republican party in the State of New York, 
and that such condition would have a great 
effect against the whole party at the next Pres- 
id-ntial Election. Hence you refuse to do 
your official duty. We think such conduct is 
moral, patriotic and political cowardice. 

Mr. President here is something for your 
very serious consideration ; The rule of com- 
mon sense and of Law says: "That he who 
screens one guilty of crime from exposure or 
punishment, thereby aids and abetts him and 
by so doing becomes an Accessory to such 
crime and is as guilty as the principal crim- 
inal " 

Now by reason of your refusal to do your 
official duty and investigate the perjured Judge 
Hazel, it is clear you have not only screened 
him from exposure and punishment but you 
have also screened and protected this whole 
bunch of Ring Republicans in New York from 
exposure and punishment ; and thereby under 
the above rule of common sense and law you 
have become an Accessory to all the Con- 
spiracy, Perjury and Anarchy described in this 
Book ; and that the world should and will hold 
you guilty as such Accessory. 

These are just and fair conclusions drawn 



72 



PRESIDENT 



from the f icts stated in my Book, and from a 
fair consideration of the aims and objects of 
men, and the ways of political life at the pres- 
ent day. Respectfully Yours, 

P.'M. Sullivan. 




PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 
Protector of Conspirators, and Perjurers. 

The President received the foregoing letter but like 
all Eight (8) letters, Four (4) books and charges sent 
to him showing the criminal guilt of this United States 
Judge and his confederates, he never made any reply 
thereto though he has had over two years in which to 
investigate this criminal Judge. 

NOW, as argument and facts we say ; There is 



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not an intelligent innocent man in the world who would 
allow himself to be accused of the high crimes charged 
in that letter against the President without replying 
thereto in some way or trying to punish his accuser. 
It is contrary to human nature for innocence to remain 
silent under such serious criminal accusations ; and es- 
pecially when one had the power of punishment that the 
President had. 

If the accusations in the letter were false and he 
and his Ring Repuplicans were innocent men, instead of 
unconvicted culprits, would he not have acted his nature 
and jumped into the Arena of public print and opinion, 
and there made a lime light display of his vaunted per- 
sonal honor and Civic righteousness? 

Would a man with his inherited millions and in- 
herited Presidency over Eighty (80) Million of people, 
allow the Nation's Eexecutive to be accused by the 
powerless victim of being Accessory to Anarchy, at- 
tempted murder and all the crimes herein alleged with- 
out attempting to punish his accuser, unless he was in 
fact guilty as charged? 

The answer to these questions are so evident they 
need not be written. But they will be found in the fact ; 
That the President knew from the multitude and magni- 
tude of these crimes that any stir or investigation of 
them by him, would inform the American people of iheir 
actual existence, and then this nest of ringsters together 
with his Presidential aspirations would soon be broken up 
and destroyed. 

Therefore, the reason why he refused to acknowledge 
the receipt of that letter, and refused to prosecute the 
charges against that United States Judge, and ignored 
the whole business is again made clear and certain. 

In other and more direct words these solid facts 



74 PRESIDENT 

and reason show ; that the President by refusing to do 
his sworn and official duty has attempted to hide and 
protect from expc^ure and punishment the largest and 
most dangerous band of criminals that ever disgraced 
any country. And for such moral turpitude and quasi 
treason he should be impeached and imprisoned. 

And here we pause to ask ; Has the administration 
of the country and the law, become so corrupt that the 
President of the United States will criminally use the 
power of his high office for personal and partisan pur- 
poses? The facts and reason here answer Yes: And 
that in doing so, he sneakingly robbed Justice of her 
Virtue, and trailed her garments in the dust. 

We further say, a President who could read the 
facts of this individual oppression, judicial robbery, and 
these governmental crimes, and not be moved to emotion 
and official action, must have a heart like Pharaoh, and 
be lost to all feelings of manhood, save that of presi- 
dential ambition with a determination to gratify the 
same at the expense of all patriotism and crime. 

Because ; here is a detail of crime appalling to all 
civilization and dangerous to governmental life. And 
when the President of our country undertook to suppress 
and hide these crimes from the public by refusing to do 
his official duty thereon, he proved his want of morality, 
the violation of his official oath and committed a crime 
as much greater than these, as his office is greater than 
that of Tom Piatt's small Assemblyman who first 
started this criminal ball a rolling. 

Under these charges it was the sworn, official, legal 
and constitutional duty of the President to investigate 
the same, and if Judge Hazel was found guilty to re- 
move him from office. But when he refused to take any 
action or even to acknowledge the receipt of such 



ROOSEVELT 75 

charges, he not only proved his official discourtesy, but 
also plainly proved his cringing and criminal intention 
to unlawfully screen these Ring Republicans of New 
York, so that they- might have standing and power with 
the people to elect him to the Presidency. 

Now these Judges and other Conspirators are guilty 
of the crimes herein charged against them and the 
President knows it. And he is likewise guilty of pro- 
tecting them from exposure and punishment as herein 
stated : Therefore he has ratified and confirmed all 
their conspiracy and perjury, and by reason of all the 
facts he is an Accessory to all their crimes ; and is as 
guilty as any of these perjured Judges or Thugs who 
attempted to murder the victim. 

He is more guilty than the whole criminal aggrega- 
tion ; because after he knew of their crimes and that he 
had taken his official oath from this perjured Judge, he 
insulted the whole nation by refusing to investigate him 
for the reasons herein stated. So it is plain that a Pres- 
ident who screens a perjured Judge as herein explained 
is unfit for the Presidency or any other office. 

As further evidence and argument we say ; That 
having shown that these crimes started and grew from 
the disputes between a small attorney and a less sized 
Assemblyman, until they now include these mighty 
Judges and the President of the United States, is it not 
clearly seen ; That unless the people step in and stop 
this criminal development, history will repeat itself by 
spiders weaving webs in parlors and palaces, and the 
Cities' streets becoming carpeted with the growth of 
grass. 

And when a lone victim saved his life and liberty 
under such powerful persecution, and is able to present 
this wonderful category of high crimes and official crim- 



76 PRESIDENT 

inals, is it not proper to say ; That if the whole truth 
was shown, the people would see their Country was only 
resting upon a shell of virtue, while underneath was a 
boiling mass of political corruption, liable to break out 
at any time and reproduce the historic days of Repub- 
lics falling through their own corruption. 

The magnitude and danger of this criminal situa- 
tion is so alarming, that it sinks the personal degreda- 
tion of these culprits into insignificance. And the rapid 
growth of these crimes under the secret power of Ring 
politics plainly shows ; The destroying influence of such 
a band of criminals, and the patriotic necessity for de- 
stoying such ring power, in order to save the morals of 
the people and the life of the Nation. Such facts show, 
that it is now a question of patriotism against personality 
and politics. 

We argue: That when the Supreme Court Judges. 
State and United States Attorneys, United States Judges 
and other high officials, become so corrupt that a citi- 
zen in private life is able to state and prove the facts 
which show such officers to be guilty of Conspiracy, 
Perjury, Anarchy and other crimes here stated, and 
then the President of our Country screens and protects 
such criminals from exposure and punishment by refus- 
ing to do his sworn and official duty as herein explained, 
and all such criminal conditions being the offspring of 
Ring Politics, we submit that such politics must be de- 
stroyed or else it will destroy the country. 

Should the question be asked ; Why the victim 
alone out of Eighty Millions of people should be so pat- 
riotic as to attact all these high officials, one perfect 
answer is ; He is the only person in America that has 
ever been so persecuted by such high officials, and there- 
by had such a privilege and duty thrust upon him. 



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Much thought may be used upon this proposition. 

And should the people ask the President, why he 
has neglected and refused for over two years to prose- 
cute the Conspiracy and Perjury charges against United 
States Judge Hazel, what moral excuse or legal defense 
could he make ? Answer None : But he would probably 
quibble and lie and have the Ring papers to attack his 
accuser, and thereby try to divert attention from himself 
to the lone and ruined victim. 

And should he secretly or publicly use the power of 
his office in trying to destroy the force of these facts, 
or to crush the victim, the American people would not 
sustain him in such a ourse : For they are in favor of 
fair play to all, be he Peasant or President. Consti- 
tutional equality is yet supreme : Arbitrary power has 
had its day : And he who employs the same to destroy 
another destroys himself, as these Jug-handle Judges 
and this posthumous President can hereafter sorrowfully 
verify. 

The reader will observe that there is no question 
here of policy, tariff, imperialism, gold-standard, free 
silver or any governmental question upon which honest 
men might differ : But the pure and simple question 
is : Shall a band of proven criminals rule the country 
with their accessorial President to captain the host? 

Now we candidly submit ; That the example set by 
the crimes of these Judges and the example of the 
President, is more injurious to public morals and dan- 
gerous to the life of the Nation than that of all other 
criminals in the land : That being true, how can the 
United States be asked to com-nit national suicide by 
placing the government in the hands of such political 
desperadoes? Ought they not at least be compelled to 
prove, by due process of law, the falsity of these alleged 



78 PRESIDENT 

crimes before again being intrusted with the peoples 
rights and property? 

While we believe the virtue and self interest of the 
people will preserve the Country for years to come, 
still in view of the general crime and boodling through- 
out the land, and the fact that the crimes here are 
traced to the White House with sufficient legal evidence 
to convict the President and all concerned, we think it 
our imperative duty to God and Country, to present 
these facts to the people for their serious consideration. 

Again, when a band of criminal politicians control- 
ing the State government of New York, use their Judges 
to rob and ruin a man because he had exposed some of 
their crimes, and then such criminals are protected by 
the President from exposure and punishment, for the 
purpose of retaining their power to elect himself to the 
presidency, are not such traitorous conditions enough to 
freeze the blood of freedom, and frenzie the minds of 
the people? 

And when a man in private life is compelled to plow 
through the Sea of crime and corruption here told, with 
the President helping to smother and hide such facts by 
a misuse of his official power, is it not truth to assert ; 
That a proper consideration of such crimes and their 
environments ; petrifies patriotism ; murders morality ; 
and crucifies conscience in the crucible of crime? 

And then, as a reward of merit for such political 
Ring work and for future Ring use ; Senator Platl of 
New York and his confederates so arrange their Na- 
tional Ring machine, that it automatically grinds out 
the endorsement of this marauder of morality for our 
next President ; is it not plain : That if the foregoing 
detailed iniquity and certain crime, is not sufficient to 
satisfy the country of its danger, and to enthuse the 



ROOSEVELT 79 

people to immediate preservative action, that then noth- 
ing but ruin can awaken their slumbering and con- 
fiding natures? 

In other words ; When a band of Supreme Court 
Judges can chase a private citizen through the State of 
New York until they rob him of his money and honor : 
Then in turn he chases them into Four Grand Jury 
Rooms, where they find unlawful Ring protection, and 
out of there he chases them into the White House where 
the President of the United States unlawfully protects 
them ; and then he appeals such facts to the people, 
and through the general chase for money and its domi- 
nate power, such crimes are not redressed but rewarded 
by the people electing the Chief of these criminals to 
the Presidency, can we not truly say; then and their 
civil rights are lost. Tyranny is revived and govern- 
ment by the people proves a failure? 

In another form : If the Ring Republicans can re- 
taia the administration of the Country after this expos- 
ure of their leaders, and elect a President thus proven 
to be guilty of high crime, then we must reluctantly ad- 
mit : That the certianty of satisfying greed and obtain- 
ing money through these Ring thieves, is so well known, 
generally rooted, and set among the people that they 
will shut their eyes in the face of all dishonor for the 
certainty of greed and gain. 

And if one should ask how the President dare re- 
fuse to investigate these criminal charges against Judge 
Hazel, when it was his sworn and official duty to do so, 
one answer would be : That crime personified is illogi- 
cal and dare do anything when the hope of gain is large 
enough. And when the hope of gain offered to an un- 
balanced and aspiring ambition was the nomination and 



80 PRESIDENT 

election to the Presidency of the United States, he 
dared and politically died. 

Another answer is : He apparently calculated the 
poor, robbed and ruined victim could never gather in- 
fluence or power enough to cause hina any material 
trouble if he did so refuse to do his duty. And if the 
victim did succeed in making any public noise about 
the matter, the Ring papers would soon degrade him 
below notice : Besides the great power and dignity at- 
tached to his of&ce, and tne natural disposition of the 
people to sustain their President, would be a sufficient 
answer and defense against anything such a poor and 
obscure man could say or do. 

OKLAHOMA 

Now, when the President sent these criminal 
charges back to the accused Ring Republicans of Okla- 
homa to be the Judges of their own guilt, he actually 
protected them. And when he did such an infamous thing 
for those who could not vote to even elect him Presi- 
dent, how reasonable and certain it is, that he protected 
these Ring Republicans of New York who could vote 
for him, and who held his presidential destiny in their 
hands? And how unconciously he thus furnished the 
convincing proof of his own guilt and infamy. 

What greater malfeasance in officce could the Presi- 
dent commit than to make a Band of murder protectors 
their own Judges? And when he did so to hide their 
crimes to further his political ambition, is he not more 
dangerous to the Nation than any criminal the Country 
has ever known? And does not his protection of the 
Ring Republican criminals of both New York and Okla- 
homa prove that he is better fitted for the Penitentiary 
than for the Presidency? Has he not been weighed in 



ROOSEVELT 81 

the scales and found wanting? 

In sending these charges back he emulated the role 
of a ward heeler, and should he now claim they were 
sent back by some subordinate, such claim would be 
false for (even then) the law and common sense says ; 
the acts of his subordinates are his acts. He is the 
President and entitled to it's honors, likewise must 
bear it's burdens, and he will not be allowed to shift the 
burden of his infamy upon some poor dependent official. 

NEW YORK AGAIN. 

It must be remembered that the Presidential Office 
is the greatest in the world, and demands the highest 
order of morality, honesty, learning and ability. And 
when a man wants that office and can not present any 
better demand for it than that, of having already be- 
trayed it's trust by using the power therof to protect 
Two Bands of Ring Republican criminals consisting of 
Conspirators, Trators, Perjurers and Anarchists, we do 
not think the American people ought to acknowledge 
his claim. 

In this connection we ask : What person could re- 
spect a President who would pay the price of his elec- 
tion by secreting the crimes of a perjured Judge and 
Anarchist from whom he had taken his oath of office? 
And what inducements would any officer of the United 
States have to be honest knowing that the President held 
his office by reason of such an immoral and unlawful 
purchase price? Can the people afford to stullify them- 
selves and commit national suicide by electing such a 
President? 

It is a fa.ct, that the Republican Ring Politicians of 
New York lead by these high Judges, have committed 
the Felonies and crimes herein stated. It is also a fact, 



82 PRESIDENT 

that President Roosevelt has ratified and confirmed such 
crimes and made himself a party thereto as herein 
stated ; And common sense and reason says ; that by 
their silence when so publicly accused, they have all 
acknowledged their guilt. 

So it is perfectly plain, the American people can not 
afford to further jeopardize their blood bought rights by 
placing them in the deposit vaults of such a band of 
political burglars. In other words; men who have 
already violated their oaths of office, trailed the Judi- 
cial Ermine in the dust, and prostituted the functions of 
the highest office in the world, they can not be further 
trusted, whether he be a Jug-handle Judge or a Posthu- 
mous President. 

The crimes here disclosed are too serious for civili- 
zation to overlook. Every man, woman and child have 
a direct interest in them ; because they are likely to 
suffer some such persecution and injury. Besides if 
these crimes and criminals are not rebuked and punished, 
a precedent of Judicial robbery and Presidential infamy 
will be established, that will soon destroy the protecting 
vitality and enduring strength of the Nation. 

Under such conditions civil rights and personal 
liberty would soon be at the caprice of Ring-made 
Judges, only to be had at the price of absolute fealty to 
such Ring bosses as Piatt and Quay, with general serf 
service to the debauching power of money magnates. 

And when sucn times come, which may be sooner 
than expected, then alas for the God given country of 
America. Alas ! for the principle of human equality 
built upon the suffering of revolutionary Martyrs, and 
sanctified by the assassinated blood of such men as Lin- 
coln and McKinley. 

Whenever as in this New York case, Republican Ring 



ROOSEVELT 83 

politics become so corrupt that it will use its Judges to 
rob and ruin a man in its Courts, for the small political 
reason here stated, and then through its political power 
cause the President of the United States to ratify such 
robbery, a condition is proven that is appalling to con- 
template, and absolutely endangers the stability and 
life of the nation. 

And if the Ring Politicians nominate such a Pres- 
ident for re-election, will they not offer a premium for 
crime, and insult the honor and intelligence of every 
citizen of the country? And could or would any hon- 
est man who knows of these crimes vote for the re-elec- 
tion of such a President? What a brazen bunch of false 
pretenses such conditions would present to the world? 
And what would the property of the individual or the 
securities of the nation be worth under such criminal 
rule? 

And should he be elected President, would not the 
future criminals plead his crimes as an excuse and de- 
fense for their own? Would not the poor be justified in 
robbing the rich and then pleading the crimes of these 
high-toned Judges and criminals in defense? Where 
would be the example for the viciou'? to be virtuous? 
The sinner to be sinless or the criminal to abstain from 
crime? 

What an endless chain of crimes and criminals such 
a catastrophe would produce. Nothing in presidential 
history could compare with such disaster, except it 
might be Cleveland's Endless Treasury Chain ; whereby 
$280,000,000 was so manipulated that many political 
parasites were soon made Millionaires. 

Having herein unhorsed the strenous Rough Rider 
from the skirmish of San Juan Hill, and cremated the 
Criminal Ring Republicans of the country, we ask that 



84 PRESIDENT 

some of their ashes be taken to the utmost parts of the 
earth, as proof of the final end of Jug-handle Judges, 
Ring Politicians, and especially Presidents, who use the 
power of their office to hide the crimes of partisan crim- 
inals. 

Now should the President undertake to defend him- 
self by denying any knowledge of these New York 
crimes, such denial would be false. Because the victim 
mailed to him under special delivery stamps and return 
notice envelopes some of the foregoing Eight letters. 
Four Books and sets of charges describing these crimes. 

And these letters, books and charges having be- 
come a part of the files and records of his Presidential 
Office, common sense and the law will not allow him to 
deny the facts and knowledge imparted to him by the 
files and records of his own office. 

Further, hundreds of such books were publicly cir- 
culated among the Ring politicians of New York and the 
general public, in addition to which the Ring papers and 
Magazines often slurred the victim and his book, so 
these facts and crimes are a matter of National notoriety, 
to which general knowledge Mr. President would not be 
allowed to plead general ignorance. 

Novr, it is evident without argument ; That if the 
matters stated in this book are true, then these Judges 
and the President are the most depraved and dangerous 
criminals in the land, and they should be first im- 
peached, then tried in Court, convicted and sent to 
prison : But if the book is false, then the victim is 
equally depraved and he likwise should be tried, con- 
victed and imprisoned. 

And the Victim repeats ; That he tried to get Four 
separate Grand Juries in New York to indict him for 
Libel in printing this Book there, so as to get a chance 



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to judicially prove on his defense that the book is all 
true. And he still stands ready with evidence and 
records to prove upon a fair Jury trial that all the state- 
ments of fact in this book are true, and contends that 
the comment thereon is just and fair befitting their 
crimes and that the whole is historically required. He 
stands pat upon the record, he has no fears and asks no 
favors. Let the broad-axe of truth hew to the line. 
Let justice be done though Rings, Judges Governors, 
Presidents, Victim and all fall. 

NOW, as to Governor Odell, his guilt is equal to 
that of the whole New York Combine. He is the pivot 
around which all poLtical crooks circulate, while Tom 
Piatt turns the crank. He protected these New York 
criminals in the same way and for personal and politi- 
cal reasons the same as President Roosevelt did. 

They are an anomalous pair : Odell refused to ex 
tradite his political friend, the indicted Missouri boodler 
Zeigler ; while Roosevelt whooped up political bumcombe 
by demanding the extradition of his political enemy 
the indicted Missouri boodler, Kratz. 

Thus in a small way they both manufactured poli- 
tics : One by screening a Republican, the other by pun- 
ishing a reputed Democrat. One wants to be elected 
President in 1904, the other in 1908 : Each helps the 
other, and both use their political power to protect 
criminals for political purposes. 

As further facts the victim states : That if the law 
could have a fair operation in the State of New York, 
he could convict and send to States Prison all these 
Judges and the President for the crimes herein alleged' 
against them : But by reason of the Criminal- Ring Re- 
publicans controlling every thing in that State and Ok- 
lahoma City ; the law is boycotted : Ring criminals go 



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free ; Justice is dead and buried ; and honor is hung up- 
on the gallows of infamy. 

ANARCHY 

The wholesale crimes and open defiance of law 
here exposed not only shows a case of quasi treason, 
but also presents a case of the worst and most danger- 
ous kind of secret Anarchy. For the belief and prac- 
tice of Anarchy is not confined to ignorant, deluded 
foreigners, who openly disavow all gC'Vernment by law 
and sometimes go out and assassinate some prominent 
official. 

But Anarchy means : A defiance and disregard of 
law, whether openly avowed or secretly done : A con- 
dition of mind whether individual or collective, that has 
no respect for the law and is not guided by it. Such 
is Anarchy in its broad practical sense and meaning. 

So it is seen Anarchy is not confined to the ignor- 
ant '-reds" of the Czolgosz class, but that it includes 
these educated Ring Politicians who use the power of 
their positions to carry out criminal schemes. 

And while Czolgosz was a diabolical criminal and 
received his just punishment, still he was not so guilty 
of moral turpitude from his ignorant stand-point as these 
educated Judges and Governors are from their high 
stand-point. 

Besides he was not so dangerous to the welfare and 
perpetuity of the Country as these criminal Judges and 
Governors are. Because he only assasinated the official 
but left the law which soon filled the vacancy : While 
those high officers have assasinated the law of Millions 
of people, and left nothing to fill the vacancy but secret 
Crime and secret Anarchy, with governmental destruc- 
tion fast closing in upon the heels of their criminal wake. 



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And Roosevelt who now fills that Presidential va- 
cancy fell heir to the same not by the ballots of the 
people, but by the bullets of an Anarchist ; and then 
took his oath of office from an Anarchist, then became 
one of them by using the power of his office to pro- 
tect a whole band of Anarchists from exposure and pun- 
ishment because he wmted their political power to elect 
himself to the Presidency, 

And while the President was thus secretly protecting 
these Judicial Anarchists of New York, he toured the 
Country in free Palace Couches publicly proclaiming 
the equality of the law and condeming all lynching An- 
archists as governmental enemies. His plain buncombe, 
hypocricy and deceit is enough to give the world the 
cold shivers. For all see his personal and political 
motive, and know that he has one law for the poor and 
another for the plutocrat, and that these Judicial An- 
archists are more dangerous to the life of the Nation 
than all the rape lynchers in the land. 

And as we record his want of moral courage and 
hence his political deafh, let us spread the mantle of 
charity remembering that he once stood forth as a mon- 
ument of independence and a Hercules of personal 
bravery. But while thus charitable, we must not shirk 
our duty by failing to vote and remove from power the 
criminal Ring Republicans of the Country : Because 
they are the primary cause of all the crime here ex- 
posed ;. besides they are a menace to honest government 
and National life. Specifically they are responsible for 
the robbery of the victim, the crimes of these Judges, 
the ratification thereof by the President, his loss of 
office and political death. 

This public Indict nent is enough to stagger mor- 
ality and call out the cleansing power of the Country. 



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It is an involuntary trust we have been forced to execute. 
The people are the beneficiaries and their lives, liberty 
and property are shown to be in constant danger by the 
corrupt Judges and other officials the Ring has forced 
upon them. Even the President himself is shown to be 
corrupted and coerced by this Ring, We hope and trust 
that the preservative power of the Country will turn out 
upon the trial of this Indictment at the next election and 
convict these Ring Criminals, and thus free Uncle Sam 
and let him again breathe the air of honor and a man. 

ROOSEVELT was the ideal of many clear heads 
and honest hearts : And aside from his limelight na- 
ture and unbalanced ambition, he stood the equal of the 
average President. And had he stood the test of official 
duty, relying upon right instead of might, nothing could 
have divorced him from the hearts and votes of the 
American people. 

Had he investigated and exposed the crimes of 
these Republican criminals instead of protecting them, 
had he stood as a rock of right against their power of 
wrong, had he done his duty, trusting in God and the 
people instead of Ring Politicians; Today he would be' 
honored by his country and elected the next President 
of the United States. 

But when he protected the Ring Criminals of New 
York and Oklahoma there was his fatal error. There 
he allowed himself to be cajoled by the siren song of 
Ring Politicians, and sold the honor of the Presidency 
for a mess of Ring pottage. There he deserted the 
land marks of duty and right, with the hope of sailing 
upon the Sea of plutocratic luxury and political Ring 
power. There he threw both consciQj4«And compass in 
the S-. a, and soon found himself buffejfliig the waves of 
political death with none to rescue his imperiled ambi- 



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tion. Through his ambition he both feared and courted 
the political power of these New York crooks : He 
knew they were guilt/ and that no defense could be 
made for them : He knew that the investigation of 
Judge Hazel would expose the whole Conspiracy and 
place their crimes on record before the world : He 
knew if he did that, then the Ring would try and de- 
feat his nomination : So he quivered in the balance, 
then yielded to their power of wrong instead of stand- 
ing by his sworn duty of right. 

"What a lamentable contrast : Yesterday he stood 
npon a pyramid of fame crowned with a wreath of honor 
and bravery, won upon the fields of deadly strife in a 
foreign land : To-day, he lies in political death wrapped 
in the winding sheets of Ring rule and infamous 
politicians. 

What a lesson the facts of his public life teach to 
all mankind : While bravely performing his duty at 
San Juan Hill, he escaped all harm and was finally 
landed in the Presidential Chair : But while cowardly 
shirking his Presidential duty, he was shot down the 
Shute of public disgrace and landed in the grave of 
Ring Politicians. 



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